Pumpkins
Pumpkin is an important vegetable in cucurbit family. It shares this family with members of summer and winter squash. However, pumpkins are easily distinguishable from squashes by having a coarse, strongly flavored flesh, and rinds whose hardness falls between that of summer and winter squash.
"Pumpkins" are varieties of Cucurbita species pepo, moschata, mixta, and maxima. Sometimes a pumpkin may be called “pumpkin” in one area, but “squash” in another.