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pumpkinseed

noun

Etymology

From pumpkin + seed. The fish is so named for its small body that is shaped much like a pumpkin seed.

  1. derived from *seh₁-✻
  2. inherited from *sēdiz✻
  3. inherited from *sād✻
  4. inherited from sēd
  5. inherited from seed
  6. compounded as pumpkinseed — “pumpkin + seed”

Definitions

  1. A North American sunfish

    A North American sunfish; Lepomis gibbosus.

  2. A type of small riverboat.

  3. Alternative form of pumpkin seed (“the seed of a pumpkin”).

    • The current menu includes curried goat, rack of lamb with a pumpkinseed crust, and braised short ribs.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pumpkinseed. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA