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Pumpkin

pumpkin

(Science: botany) A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion. Pumpkin seed. The flattish oval seed of the pumpkin.

(Science: zoology) The common pondfish.

Origin: For older pompion, pompon, OF. Pompon, L. Pepo, peponis, Gr, properly, cooked by the sun, ripe, mellow; so called because not eaten till ripe. Cf. Cook.


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The Fiber Disease

... a perscription needed ..... when my system first caught on to the invasion this was the main ingrediant in a nasty drink of cloves pumpkin seeds in applecider viniger and 8 packets of fenbendzole ..... nnaaasssstttyyyy but i actually had about a four day cease fire then phase 2 ...

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by Nadas Moksha
Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:22 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
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Migrene

congrats...I also wanna cure mine but....I really hate pumpkin juice...

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by victor
Sun Jan 01, 2006 12:07 pm
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Migrene
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Migrene

Great news guys! My mom says she doesn't have migrene anymore :D She said she drank pumpkin juice everyday and it helped 8)

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by hurly
Fri Dec 30, 2005 11:31 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: Migrene
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I need notes

... eat... Plant biology is the way to go. Most of my labs is working on plants, and in season we can share the some of the experiment results (corn, pumpkin, asparagus, peaches, apples, eggplants...). But food technology/chemistry can be quite interesting. Reading an articles where they study foam ...

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by canalon
Wed Nov 30, 2005 7:25 pm
 
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Topic: I need notes
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