pumpkin : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pumpkin	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for pumpkin
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pumpkin n a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes Synonym(s): pumpkin, pumpkin vine, autumn pumpkin, Cucurbita pepo usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pumpkin \Pump"kin\, n. [For older pompion, pompon, OF. pompon, L. pepo, peponis, Gr. [?], properly, cooked by the sun, ripe, mellow; -- so called because not eaten till ripe. Cf. {Cook}, n.] (Bot.) A well-known trailing plant ({Cucurbita pepo}) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion. {Pumpkin seed}. (a) The flattish oval seed of the pumpkin. (b) (Zo[94]l.) The common pondfish.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
pumpkin A humourous term for the {token} - the object (notional or real) that gives its possessor (the "pumpking" or the "pumpkineer") exclusive access to something, e.g. applying {patches} to a master copy of {source} (for which the pumpkin is called a "patch pumpkin"). Chip Salzenberg wrote: David Croy once told me once that at a previous job, there was one tape drive and multiple systems that used it for backups. But instead of some high-tech exclusion software, they used a low-tech method to prevent multiple simultaneous backups: a stuffed pumpkin. No one was allowed to make backups unless they had the "backup pumpkin". (1999-02-23)