Pepo definition

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The fruit of any of various related plants, such as the cantaloupe, watermelon, cucumber, squash, pumpkin, and melon, having a hard or leathery rind, fleshy pulp, and numerous flattened seeds.
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Any fleshy gourd fruit with a hard rind and many seeds, as the melon or squash.
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A fruit of plants of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, possessing a hard rind and producing many seeds in a single, central, pulpy chamber.
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A plant producing such a fruit.
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Singular:
pepo
Plural:
pepos

Origin of pepo

  • Latin pepō a kind of melon from Greek pepōn ripe pekw- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin pepō, from Ancient Greek πέπων (pepōn, “large melon"), from πέπων (pepōn, “ripe"), from πέπτω (peptō, “ripen"). Compare pumpkin.

    From Wiktionary

Pepo Sentence Examples

  • In the red variety of Cucurbita pepo these crystals may consist of rods, thin plates, flat ribbons or spirals.

  • The three carpels forming the pepo are separated by partitions (cl).

  • The three carpels forming the pepo are separated by partitions.

  • Many ornamental gourds (Cucumis pepo) are hardy enough to be grown outside once the danger of frost is past.

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