Is pumpkin a fruit or vegetable?!
Is pumpkin a fruit or vegetable?
i was just wonderin cos on the jar it said veg and i am sure it was fruit
Answers:
According to Merriam Webster it is a fruit:
The usually round orange fruit of an annual vine (Cucurbita pepo) of the gourd family widely cultivated as food.
http://m-w.com/dictionary/pumpkin...
it could be either one
vegetable
I would have said it was a fruit.
fruit
It's a fruit. All squashes are fruit.
It's is the plants fruiting body that contains seeds. The same way tomatoes are fruit, and melons aren't vegetables.
veg・e・ta・ble
NOUN:
A plant cultivated for an edible part, such as the root of the beet, the leaf of spinach, or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower.
The edible part of such a plant.
fruit
NOUN:
pl. fruit or fruits
The ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant, together with accessory parts, containing the seeds and occurring in a wide variety of forms.
An edible, usually sweet and fleshy form of such a structure.
A part or an amount of such a plant product, served as food: fruit for dessert.
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its a vegetable it grows on the ground
fruit grows on stems of the plant
Fruit its from the squash family.
I have always considered it a vegetable but I could be wrong.Other things come to mind like marrows and cucumbers different people class them differently.
It's a fruit all fruits have pits seeds Vegetables don't
its botanically a fruit, a type of special berry PEPO. But in our daily routine we categorize it under vegetable because of its use to eat with chapati or rice. Its like tomato a vegatable in commom language and fruit fi you are a botanist.
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see if you memorize this :
PUMPKIN IS A VEGETABLE
i thought vegetables dont have seeds only fruit has.
vegtable
It is a vegetable like squash. It is used as a fruit, in sweetened pies, etc.
Tomatoes are a fruit used as a veg. Same thing.