kurpitsa — meaning in English

English meaning

• gourd noun A hard-shelled fruit from a climbing or trailing vine in the pumpkin and squash family.
• pumpkin noun A large round orange fruit that grows on a vine, often used for cooking or carved for Halloween.
• squash noun A racquet sport played in a walled court with a small rubber ball.

Senses

kurpitsa is used for these senses in English:

• gourd Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae).
• gourd A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in Lagenaria or Cucurbita.
• pepo A fruit of plants of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, possessing a hard rind and producing many seeds in a single, central, pulpy chamber.
• pumpkin The round yellow or orange fruit of this plant.
• pumpkin (uncountable) The typical color of the ripe fruit of the pumpkin plant.
• squash (botany, countable) A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.

gourd — full definition

1. noun A hard-shelled fruit from a climbing or trailing vine in the pumpkin and squash family.
2. noun The dried, hollowed shell of such a fruit, used as a bowl, container, or drinking vessel.

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