Is pumpkin a fruit?


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Pumpkin Pumpkin is a fruit. Anything that has seeds is a fruit. Although modern society does typically call the pumpkin a vegetable!

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Pumpkin is a fruit, not vegetable.

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Pumpkins are fruit.

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Technically a pumpkin is a fruit because it has seeds. Thanks for asking ChaCha!

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Yes, pumpkin is a fruit. A fruit is the ripened ovary (together with seeds) of a flowering plant. Thanks for using ChaCha.

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A pumpkin is a large, edible, orange-yellow fruit born by a coarse, decumbent vine. Thanks for asking Cha Cha.

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Yes, botanically speaking pumpkin is a fruit by the way it reproduces. English language calls it a vegetable though. ChaCha!

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In a botanical, context, pumpkin is a FRUIT because is has seeds, in culinary terms, is can be properly called a VEGETABLE.

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According to the source I found, pumpkin is a fruit! I didn't know that!

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