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A pumpkin is a big, round, orange vegetable that grows on a vine in a field. People use it to make pumpkin pie, soup, and, at Halloween, to scary or funny faces into it and put a light inside (a jack-o'-lantern).
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原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pumpkinnoun/ˈpʌmpkɪn/
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A domesticated plant, in species Cucurbita pepo, similar in growth pattern, foliage, flower, and fruit to the squash or melon.
- Nevertheless, the comprehensive comparative analysis of pumpkin viromes across various geographic regions by NGS remains deficient.
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The round yellow or orange fruit of this plant.
- There were pumpkins in Mombi’s corn-fields, lying golden red among the rows of green stalks; and these had been planted and carefully tended that the four-horned cow might eat of them in the winter time.
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The typical color of the ripe fruit of the pumpkin plant.
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Any of a number of cultivars from the genus Cucurbita; known in the US as winter squash.
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A term of endearment for someone small and cute.
- You must be daddy’s little pumpkin.
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informalautomotivetransportvehiclesThe housing for a differential, built into an axle of a vehicle; the housing and its contents.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。