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pumpkin 音标拼音: [p'ʌmpkɪn] [p'ʌmkɪn] n. 南瓜 南瓜 pumpkin n 1: 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: {pumpkin}, {pumpkin vine}, {autumn pumpkin}, {Cucurbita pepo}] 2: usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn 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. [1913 Webster] {Pumpkin seed}. (a) The flattish oval seed of the pumpkin. (b) (Zool.) The common pondfish. [1913 Webster] (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 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)
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