Definitions for pepo

pepo pe·po

Spelling: [pee-poh]
IPA: /ˈpi poʊ/

Pepo is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 19 anagrams from letters in pepo (eopp).

Definitions for pepo

noun

  1. the characteristic fruit of plants of the gourd family, having a fleshy, many-seeded interior and a hard or firm rind, as the gourd, melon, and cucumber.

Origin of pepo

1700-10; Latin pepō large melon, pumpkin Greek pépōn, short for pépōn (síkyos) ripe (gourd)

Examples for pepo

Among the first was that of Bologna, where pepo began to expound the law in 1075.

In the drawing of pepo oblongus of Lobel, Icones, 641, the character of the peduncle is clearly defined.

The fruit is a fleshy many-seeded berry with a tough rind (known as a pepo), and often attains considerable size.

The three carpels forming the pepo are separated by partitions.

M. Naudin considers these forms as undoubtedly varieties of Cucurbita pepo.

The pepo, another indehiscent syncarpous fruit, is illustrated by the fruit of the gourd, melon (fig. 31) and other Cucurbitaceae.

The fruit of the papaw resembles the pepo, but the calyx is not superior.

A fourth, pepo rotundus major, added in the edition of 1616, appears to me to be C. maxima.

Word Value for pepo
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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