Is pumpkin vegetable or a fruit?

Answer 1

thw answer is vegetable

Answer 2

Fruit

Answer 3

A fruit is the part of a plant that contains the seeds like pumpkins, apples, and cucumbers. A vegetable is any other plant part, like roots, tubers, stems, and leaves. Grain is the seed of a plant like wheat or corn(maize). Sometimes fruits are considered vegetables (tomatoes) but technically they are fruits.

Answer 4

Both, pumpkins and squashes, belong to the same family cucumbers, honey dew, and cantaloupes.
They all are fruits from the cucurbitaceous variety.

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

Answer 5

Fruit--they are a type of melon.
Pumpkins are members of the vine crops family called cucurbits.

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/pumpkins/facts.html

Answer 6

pump‧kin  [puhmp-kin or, commonly, puhng-kin] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun
1.a large, edible, 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. maxima or C. moschata.
3.a plant bearing such fruit.

Answer 7

Hello, pumpkin is not a fruit it is a vegetable.
It is a member of the squash family.
Many people mistakenly believe it is a fruit because it is most commonly used in pies.

Answer 8

pumpkin is a large round fruit which has a thick orange rind, pulpy flesh and loads of seeds.

Answer 9

its a fruit, anything with seeds in is considered to be a fruit, anything without seeds in is a vegetable.
tomatoes, cumbers, pumpkins, aubergines and courgettes are all fruits.
potatoes, celery, lettuce are all veg

Answer 10

Both are good for you, each fruit/vegetable has different vitamins. Therefore as more variety, as better. Vegetables have generally less sugar than fruits.

Answer 11

Pumpkin is a squash, hence it is a vegetable.