Is a pumking a fruit or what?

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Answer:A fruit and a vegetable... This first bit is for Huh: Pumpkin comes from the Greek 'pepon' (large melon), the French converted the word to popon which sounded like pimpon and was changed to pumpion. American colonists changed the 'ion' to 'kin' giving rise to pumpkin. Pumping was intruduced by student. Pompion means 'eaten cooked by the sun' or when ripe. Now... ...Technically, fruit is the fleshy part that encloses the seed, while vegetable is any fresh edible part of a plant-roots, leaves, flowers, and also fruit... ...As an Ag Science astudent I have studied botany and the technical difference between a fruit and a vegetable is that a fruit has seeds, so pumpkin, cucumber, tomatoe, zucchini etc are actually fruit. If it grows like a leaf or plant stem/root structure then it is a vegetable, if it grows from a flower and has seeds, it is a fruit... ...The definition of a fruit from a little dictionary of biology is: 'The ripened ovary of a flower, enclosing seeds, formed as the result of pollination and fertilisation. The fruit protects the seed and aids in dispersal' so your pumpkin is a fruit too... http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/stn/q and a/notes/020613-1.htm Oct 28 02, 6:00 AM