How many syllables in pumpkin?

There are 2 syllables in the word pumpkin.

How to pronounce pumpkin:

pumpkin (noun):: 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 fruit of any of various cultivars of herbaceous plants (cucurbita pepo, c. maxima, c. moschata, and c. mixta synonym c. argyrosperma) of the gourd family that is typically round and orange but may be another color or shape, that has a hard usually smooth skin with shallow longitudinal grooves, and that is grown for ornamental use or for its fibrous pale flesh used especially in baking or as feed for livestock

autumn pumpkin

cucurbita pepo

genus cucurbita

pumpkin seed

pumpkin vine

squash

squash vine

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