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Pumpkin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A pompion. [This is the common orthography of the word in the United States.]

Pumpkin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion.

Pumpkin Encyclopedia Britannica

PUMPKIN. See Gourd, vol. xi. p. 4, and Horticulture, vol. xii. p. 283.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 20, p. 105
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