Pumpkins - Vegetable or Fruit?

So, is your Halloween pumpkin is a vegetable or a fruit?

We've decided the knowledge of such things have the utmost importance, so let's explore.

First, here's a short quiz,  how about a tomato, is it a fruit or a vegetable?
The answer is because pumpkins and tomatoes have something in common?
What could they possibly have in common?

Here's a hint, it's in the above photo.
Here's another hint, do they both have seeds?

If the answer is yes, then  we are talking about fruit.

This, of course, makes pumpkins and tomatoes both fruit.

But wait there's more...

It also makes cucumbers, squash, green beans and walnuts all fruits as well. Right?

The answer is based on the parts of the plant involved.
Besides the seeds, basically, fruits are developed from flowers, vegetables aren't.
Vegetables are not made from flowers; instead, they are the plant's roots (carrots), stems (celery), leaves (cabbage) and other edible parts of a plant.

It's common to refer to these fruits as vegetables:

• Pumpkin
• Squash
• Tomato
• Cucumbers
• Green beans
• Hot peppers
• Bell peppers 

If you are speaking in culinary terms, you can call these fruits vegetables, even though in the truest form they are still fruits.

The United States Supreme Court back in 1883 had some extra time on their hands and entered a legal verdict on whether a tomato should be classified as a vegetable or a fruit.
They decided unanimously, in Nix versus Hedden, that a tomato is a vegetable, even though it is really a fruit.

Another way to determine whether it is a vegetable or a fruit is after being picked a Fruit will ripen, and a vegetable will rot.