| Noun | 1. | pumpkin vine - a coarse vine widely cultivated for its non-keeping large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashespumpkin - usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn squash, squash vine - any of numerous annual tendril-bearing trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits | |