This term would likely have been used by the Wampanoag people (who speak the Wôpanâak dialect of Massachusett) when introducing pumpkins to English Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony, located in present-day Massachusetts. Īn alternate derivation for pumpkin is the Massachusett word pôhpukun, meaning 'grows forth round'. Under this theory, the term transitioned through the Latin word peponem and the Middle French word pompon to the Early Modern English pompion, which was changed to pumpkin by 17th-century English colonists, shortly after encountering pumpkins upon their arrival in what is now the northeastern United States. Īccording to the Oxford English Dictionary, the English word pumpkin derives from the Ancient Greek word πέπων ( romanized pepon), meaning 'melon'. Pumpkin pie, for instance, is a traditional part of Thanksgiving meals in Canada and the United States, and pumpkins are frequently carved as jack-o'-lanterns for decoration around Halloween, although commercially canned pumpkin purée and pumpkin pie fillings are usually made from varieties of winter squash different from the ones used for jack-o'-lanterns. Pumpkins are widely grown for food, as well as for aesthetic and recreational purposes. Native to North America (northeastern Mexico and the southern United States), pumpkins are one of the oldest domesticated plants, having been used as early as 7,000 to 5,500 BC. moschata with similar appearance are also sometimes called "pumpkins". The name is most commonly used for cultivars of Cucurbita pepo, but some cultivars of Cucurbita maxima, C.
The thick shell contains the seeds and pulp. A pumpkin is a cultivar of winter squash that is round with smooth, slightly ribbed skin, and is most often deep yellow to orange in coloration.
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