n a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes
A snip of the vine and the release of balloons opens Morton Pumpkin Festival MORTON - With the traditional snip of a long pumpkin vine and release by youngsters of hundreds of orange helium-filled balloons Wednesday, the 47th annual Morton Pumpkin Festival was underway.
Sept. 12, 2013 - Peoria Journal Star