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Pumpkin seed
Pumpkin seed (pepita): edible seed of Cucurbita squash, mainly Cucurbita pepo. High protein (29–36%) and fat (42–46%), rich in magnesium and phosphorus; Styrian hull-less variety pressed for oil; clinical health evidence still limited.
Pumpkinhead (film)
Pumpkinhead (1988) is an American horror film, Stan Winston's directorial debut, starring Lance Henriksen as Ed Harley, who summons a vengeance demon; budget $4.8M, gross $4.0M, alternate title Vengeance: The Demon.
Pumpu
Pumpu was the principal settlement of the Inca province of Chinchaycocha on the puna of Junín, Peru, a major administrative center with 510 storehouses, abandoned when Spaniards arrived in 1533.
Pun
A pun (paronomasia) is wordplay exploiting polysemy, homonymy, or phonological similarity for humorous or rhetorical effect; English noun recorded 1644, likely from Italian puntiglio; studied in linguistics, translation, and NLP.
Pun Punnasiri (สมเด็จพระสังฆราช (ปุ่น ปุณฺณสิริ))
Pun Punnasiri (ปุ่น ปุณฺณสิริ) was the 17th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, from 1972 to 1973, after more than 26 years as abbot of Wat Pho in Bangkok.
Puna Geothermal Venture
Puna Geothermal Venture (PGV) is a geothermal power plant in the Puna District of Hawaii Island, the state's only geothermal plant, opened in 1993 and owned by Ormat Technologies.
Punahou School
Punahou School (Ka Punahou), an independent coed K-12 day school in Honolulu founded in 1841 by missionaries and opened July 11, 1842; Hawaii's largest private school, with 3,779 students, $34,230 tuition for 2026-27, and the new Mary Kawena Pukui Learning Commons.
Punakha Suspension Bridge
The Punakha Suspension Bridge is a pedestrian footbridge crossing the Pho Chhu river below Punakha Dzong in Bhutan, built in 1994 and described as the country's longest suspension bridge.
Punaluʻu Beach
Punaluʻu Beach, also called Punaluʻu Black Sand Beach, is a fine-grained basalt black sand beach in Kaʻū, Hawaiʻi Island, known for basking green sea turtles, freshwater springs, heiau, and a county purchase agreement after a development dispute.
Punarnava Guggulu
Punarnava Guggulu (पुनर्नवा गुग्गुलु), an Ayurvedic Formulary of India polyherbal pill based on Commiphora wightii resin and Boerhavia diffusa, dosed up to 3 g in divided doses for Vatarakta, Gridhrasi, and Amavata; contraindicated in pregnancy.
Punarnavadi kvatha curna (punarnvadi kvatha curna)
Punarnavadi kvatha curna (Punarnavādi kvātha cūrṇa), also Punarnavadi kwath, is an Ayurvedic polyherbal decoction powder (AFI AFI000413, 48 g dose) built on Boerhavia diffusa, used classically for edema, udara, cough, breathlessness, and anemia; distinct from Punarnavashtaka kvatha and from iron-containing Punarnavadi Mandura.
Punarnavadi Mandira
Punarnavadi Mandira, also spelled Punarnavadi Mandura, is an Ayurvedic herbo-mineral iron tablet (mandura bhasma with punarnava and spices, bound with cow urine) used mainly for iron deficiency anemia (Pandu).
Punarnavadyarista
Punarnavadyarista (Punarnavadyarishta) is an official Ayurvedic fermented liquid preparation (arishta) led by Boerhavia punarnava roots, with 5-10% self-generated alcohol, traditionally used for kidney, urinary, and liver complaints; human trial evidence remains limited.
Punarnavasava
Punarnavāsava (AFI000342) is a fermented Ayurvedic liquid medicine (asava) built on punarnava (Boerhavia diffusa) root, with 5–10% self-generated alcohol, used traditionally for swelling, liver and spleen disorders, and fever; dose 12–24 ml.
Punarnavastaka kvatha cirna
Punarnavastaka kvatha cirna (Punarnavāṣṭaka kvātha cūrṇa), also sold as Punarnavadi kvatha, is a classical Ayurvedic decoction powder of eight drugs, led by punarnava, prescribed for generalized edema, abdominal disorders, cough, dyspnea, and pain.
Punarnavastaka kvatha curna (afi afi-punarnavastakakvatacurna)
Punarnavastaka kvatha curna (Punarnavashtaka Kwath), an eight-ingredient Ayurvedic decoction powder from Bhaishajya Ratnavali and AFI Part I 4:22, led by Boerhavia diffusa; used for edema, abdominal disorders, cough, dyspnea, and pain, with studied hepatoprotective activity.
Punāsa
Punasa (Punāsa): name shared by two Indian villages and a tehsil. The main one is a village and tehsil headquarters in Khandwa (East Nimar) district, Madhya Pradesh, on the Narmada near the Indira Sagar dam; another Punasa village is in Bhinmal tehsil, Jalor, Rajasthan.
Punashcha
Punashcha (পুনশ্চ, meaning "Postscript") is a 1932 Bengali poetry collection by Rabindranath Tagore, the first work of his late period and his first written entirely in prose rhythm.
Punathil Kunjabdulla
Punathil Kunjabdulla (1940–2017) was a Malayalam novelist, short story writer, and medical doctor from Kerala, best known for Smarakasilakal, which won the Kerala and Kendra Sahitya Akademi Awards.
Punatsangchhu II hydroelectric plant
Punatsangchhu-II Hydroelectric Project is a 1,020 MW run-of-the-river plant on the Punatsangchhu river in western Bhutan, funded jointly by Bhutan and India and inaugurated in November 2025.
Puncak Jaya
Puncak Jaya, or Carstensz Pyramid, is a 4,884 m limestone peak in Papua, Indonesia, the highest point of New Guinea and Oceania on the Messner Seven Summits list, first climbed in 1962 by Heinrich Harrer, with rapidly vanishing tropical glaciers.
Puncak Mandala
Puncak Mandala (Julianatop, Mandala Peak, Aplim Apom) is a 4,760 m limestone peak in Highland Papua, Indonesia, highest of the Jayawijaya Range and Indonesia's second-highest independent mountain; its small tropical ice cap vanished before 2003.
Puncch Beat
Puncch Beat is an Indian Hindi-language teen drama web series created by Vikas Gupta for ALTBalaji, set at Rosewood High in Dehradun; two 13-episode seasons premiered 14 February 2019 and 27 June 2021, starring Priyank Sharma and Siddharth Sharma.
Punch (drink)
Punch is a mixed drink of spirits, citrus juice, sugar, and water, first recorded in India in 1632 and traditionally served from a communal bowl.
Punch (magazine)
Punch, or the London Charivari, was the British weekly satirical magazine founded 17 July 1841 by Ebenezer Landells and Henry Mayhew; it coined the modern 'cartoon', ran to 1992, was revived 1996-2002, and spawned imitators worldwide.
Punch (monkey)
Punch (パンチ, Punch-kun), a male Japanese macaque born 2025 at Ichikawa City Zoo, Chiba, Japan, went viral in 2026 for clinging to an IKEA orangutan plushie after maternal abandonment, later integrating into his troop.
Punch (play)
Punch is a 2024 James Graham play based on Jacob Dunne's memoir Right From Wrong about his 2011 one-punch killing of James Hodgkinson and the restorative justice meetings with the victim's parents; it won two 2026 Olivier Awards.
Punch and Judy
Punch and Judy, the traditional British glove-puppet seaside show, descends from commedia dell'arte's Pulcinella and was first recorded by Samuel Pepys in Covent Garden on 9 May 1662; its slapstick violence, swazzle voice, and dwindling modern circuit distinguish it from other puppet traditions.
Punch biopsy
Punch biopsy is a skin biopsy technique in which a rotating hollow blade removes a small cylindrical core of skin, from epidermis to subcutaneous fat, for diagnosis.
Punch list
A punch list is an itemized list of mostly minor fixes to complete before final payment on a construction project, also called a snag list.