Definition

• noun: a large, round, orange vegetable used as food and sometimes as a decoration
• noun: a fruit of any of various cultivars of herbaceous plants ('Cucurbita pepo, C. maxima, C. moschata,' and 'C. mixta' syn. 'C. argyrosperma') of the gourd family that is typically round and orange but may be another color or shape, that has a hard usually smooth skin with shallow longitudinal grooves, and that is grown for ornamental use or for its fibrous pale flesh used especially in baking or as feed for livestock
• often used before another noun
• synonyms: pompion