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A giant berry pretending to be a vegetable, then a lantern, then your spice obsession.
means A large, round, orange-fleshed gourd of the squash family, eaten in pies and carved into faces every autumn.
from From the older English 'pompion,' borrowed from French 'pompon,' which traces back through Latin 'pepo' to the Greek 'pepon' — a melon, literally something 'ripened' or 'cooked' by the sun. English speakers later swapped the ending for the diminutive '-kin,' and the modern 'pumpkin' was born. The plant itself, though, is a New World native — Greeks and Romans named the word long before anyone outside the Americas had ever met the actual squash.
- botanical truth
- Technically a fruit, specifically a berry
- world record
- Heaviest topped 2,700 pounds
- every part edible
- Flesh, seeds, flowers, even leaves
- jack-o origin
- Irish carved turnips before America offered pumpkins
- 90 percent water
- Mostly hydration wearing an orange costume
cinderella's pumpkin carriage — fairy tale transformation prop, disney's 1950 animated film adaptation
morton's pumpkin — world's heaviest pumpkin at 2,624 lbs, grown by stefano cutrupi in italy in 2023