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Dickinson pumpkin

Dickinson pumpkin noun: a kind of pumpkin, a cultivar of Cucurbita moschata, and a common source of pumpkin pie filling.

Noun

Dickinson pumpkin (plural Dickinson pumpkins)

  1. A kind of pumpkin, a cultivar of Cucurbita moschata, and a common source of pumpkin pie filling.

Forms of Dickinson pumpkin

pluralDickinson pumpkins

Origin of Dickinson pumpkin

Named after farmer Elijah Dickinson, who brought the pumpkin to central Illinois.

Questions about Dickinson pumpkin

What does Dickinson pumpkin mean?
Dickinson pumpkin means a kind of pumpkin, a cultivar of Cucurbita moschata, and a common source of pumpkin pie filling.
What part of speech is Dickinson pumpkin?
Dickinson pumpkin is a noun.
What is the plural of Dickinson pumpkin?
The plural of Dickinson pumpkin is Dickinson pumpkins.

Words near Dickinson pumpkin in the dictionary

  1. dicking up
  2. dickings
  3. Dickins
  4. Dickinson
  5. Dickinson County
  6. Dickinson pumpkin
  7. Dickinson pumpkins
  8. Dickinsonian
  9. dickinsoniid
  10. dickinsoniids
  11. dickinsoniomorph

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