Jack-O-Lantern

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a lantern made from a hollowed pumpkin in which holes are carved, typically to resemble facial features, in which a candle or light is placed; primarily created around Halloween

polysemous

Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

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Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

4 surface forms

synonym: jack-o-lantern fungus
plural: Jack-O-Lanterns
possessive: Jack-O-Lantern's
pluralpossessive: Jack-O-Lanterns'

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