nounpepos

• Any fleshy watery fruit of the melon or cucumber type, with numerous seeds and a firm rind.

  ‘Botanists call the fruits ‘pepos’ and count them, weird though this seems, as ‘berries’.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Investigators agree that Cucurbita pepo fruits would have been used primarily as containers, or perhaps as rattles, rather than food.’
  • ‘‘Our research has shown that members of the Cucurbita pepo species, including pumpkins, are particularly effective in this regard,’ he says.’