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The dose of 100 grams of the seeds mentioned above is very small, if the pepo-resin represents the entire active principle, for 100 grams of the seeds would only contain about 40 centigrams.

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  1. noun The fruit of any of various related plants, such as the cantaloupe, watermelon, cucumber, squash, pumpkin, and melon, having a hard or leathery rind, fleshy pulp, and numerous flattened seeds.

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  • Please reject all 25 claims of the patent application on warted pumpkins, including, but not reserved to, all Cucurbita pepo and Cucurbita maxima exhibiting a warty surface. —  Mother Earth News Latest 10 Articles
  • Maungo kwa machofu nimevunjika, kama mganga anayepunga pepo kilingeni … —  Global Voices Online
  • This will be a VERY BASIC overview of seed saving • In the short time provided, we'll try to cover • Tomatoes - Solanum lycopersicum • Summer squash - cucurbita pepo • Common Beans - —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Plant Nomenclature • Family Cucurbitaceae - Genus Cucurbita • species pepo - summer squash, pumpkin, acorn squash maxima - hubbard, buttercup, kabocha moschata - butternut, Long Island Cheese mixta - variety or cultivar Zephyr, Howden, Tiptop Blue Ballet, bonbon Waltham butternut Green striped cushaw - Also in the Cucurbitaceae family: Cucumis melo —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • The dose of 100 grams of the seeds mentioned above is very small, if the pepo-resin represents the entire active principle, for 100 grams of the seeds would only contain about 40 centigrams Botanical Description.--A very familiar vine, clammy, pubescent and musk-scented; large leaves, long-stalked flowers, white petals, greenish veiny fruit usually club-shaped or enlarged at the apex, the hard rind used for vessels, dippers, and so forth. —  The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines
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  1. Latin pepō, a kind of melon, from Greek pepōn, ripe; see pekw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. New Latin, from Latin pepo (pepon-) = Greek πέπων, properly σίκνος πέπων, a large kind of gourd or melon not eaten till ripe (whereas the common σίκνος was eaten unripe): πέπων, prop, adjective, also πέπειρος, ripe, mellow. Hence (from Greek πέπων) ult. English pompon, pompion, pumpion, pumpkin, and prob. pippin, pip: see pumpion, pippin, pip.
 

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