pumpkinseed

pumpkin +‎ seed

pumpkinseed (plural pumpkinseeds)

1. The seed of a pumpkin.
   • 2007 June 10, “Newcomers, End to End”, in New York Times‎:

     The current menu includes curried goat, rack of lamb with a pumpkinseed crust, and braised short ribs.

2. A North American sunfish; Lepomis gibbosus.
   • 1979: "Meditation at Lagunitas" by Robert Hass

     There was a woman
     I made love to and I remembered how, holding
     her small shoulders in my hands sometimes,
     I felt a violent wonder at her presence
     like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river
     with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat,
     muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish
     called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her.