Today’s Parola del giorno is the noun la zucca, which means pumpkin.
See the noun used below:
A ottobre si raccolgono le zucche per fare la zuppa di zucca — un piatto autunnale molto amato!
In October people collect pumpkins to make pumpkin soup, a most-loved Fall dish!
La zucca can also be used to mean head and features in a number of expressions. One of my favorite is non avere proprio niente in zucca, which means to be dead from the neck up.