pumpkins
- 1Plural of pumpkin.
Rows of orange pumpkins lined the field by late October.
The farmer sold dozens of pumpkins at the weekend market.
Note
A regular -s plural that reaches only the countable uses of the word. The color is a mass noun with no plural, so orange pumpkins are always fruit, never shades. In Australia, pumpkins also covers cultivars that Americans call winter squash. In informal talk about vehicles, the word names the housing for an axle's differential, so a mechanic can speak of the pumpkins on a truck.
pumpkins is a form of pumpkin
pumpkin, noun: A large edible fruit of the squash family, typically round with a thick orange or yellow rind and many seeds inside; in Australian usage, any winter squash. Full entry
- Forms
- pumpkinpumpkins plural
- Spelling
- pumpkin → pumpkins: add -s
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