Catchword: bumpkin

Filed under: English, Food & Drink

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: For $15, members can choose up to 10 seed packets from the current collection, which includes 22 kinds of tomatoes, three bean varieties, Sweet Siberian watermelon, Collective Farm Woman muskmelon, Oxacan Green Dent corn and Galeux D’esynes pumpkin, which some have taken to calling “bumpkins” because of the warty surface.

Article or document title:
“The odd seed” (URL)

Author:
Marianne Rzepka

Article, document, publication, web site:
Ann Arbor News

Publishing location:
Mich.

Date of publication:
Feb. 22, 2005

This catchword has yet to be researched.