bumpkin
n.— «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.» —“The odd seed” by Marianne Rzepka Ann Arbor News (Mich.) Feb. 22, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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