Is pumpkin vegetable or a fruit?



Answer:
thw answer is vegetable
Fruit
veggie.. that's how i learned it. not that this make it right..i heard everything beside a seed is a fruit,, but what does that sort squash and green beans? who knows
fruit it has seed
Pumpkin is a squash, hence it is a vegetable.
It's a gord.
It's a vegetable.
Hello, pumpkin is not a fruit it is a vegetable.
It is a member of the squash ancestral.
Many people mistakenly believe it is a fruit because it is most commonly used within pies.
it is markedly a vegetable....roast it / steam it....just superb....best is its soup....have fun
veggie
A fruit - it produces it's kernel inside........
its a fruit, anything beside seeds surrounded by is considered to be a fruit, anything without seed in is a vegetable.
tomatoes, cumbers, pumpkins, aubergines and courgettes are adjectives fruits.
potatoes, celery, lettuce are all veg
pumpkin [puhmp-kin or, commonly, puhng-kin] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun
1.a large, pleasant, orange-yellow fruit borne by a coarse, decumbent vine, Cucurbita pepo, of the gourd family.
2.the similar fruit of any of several related species, as C. maximum or C. moschata.
3.a plant bearing such fruit.
i vote veggie
Fruit--they are a type of melon.
Pumpkins are member of the vine crops family call cucurbits.

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/pumpkins/fa...
A fruit is the part of a set of a plant that contains the seeds approaching pumpkins, apples, and cucumbers. A vegetable is any other plant part, close to roots, tubers, stems, and leaves. Grain is the seed of a plant similar to wheat or corn(maize). Sometimes fruits are considered vegetables (tomatoes) but technically they are fruits.
pumpkin is a sizeable round fruit which has a sticky orange rind, pulpy flesh and loads of seed.
yup! its a fruit....
simple. seeds inside it's a fruit!!
i'm pretty sure it's a vegetable because its a squash
vegetable
veggie. it doesnt even look like a fruit, contained by or out.
probably a fruit
Both, pumpkins and squashes, belong to the same familial cucumbers, honey dew, and cantaloupes.
They all are fruits from the cucurbitaceous array.

Plus anything with nut is a fruit. Legumes (beans) are not fruits snce they're not seeds.

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