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See also: pumpkin seed
English
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Etymology
[edit]From pumpkin + seed. The fish is so named for its small body that is shaped much like a pumpkin seed.
Noun
[edit]pumpkinseed (plural pumpkinseeds)
- Alternative form of pumpkin seed (“the seed of a pumpkin”).
- 2007 June 10, “Newcomers, End to End”, in New York Times[1]:
- The current menu includes curried goat, rack of lamb with a pumpkinseed crust, and braised short ribs.
- A North American sunfish; Lepomis gibbosus.
Further reading
[edit]pumpkinseed on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Lepomis gibbosus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Lepomis gibbosus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- “pumpkinseed”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.