A pumpkin is a cultivar of a squash plant, most generally of Cucurbita pepo, that is round, with smooth, somewhat ribbed skin, and profound yellow to orange tinge. The thick shell contains the seeds and mash. Some particularly extensive cultivars of squash with comparable appearance have likewise been gotten from Cucurbita maxima. Particular cultivars of winter squash got from different species, including C. argyrosperma, and C. moschata, are additionally at times called "pumpkin". In New Zealand and Australian English, the term pumpkin for the most part alludes to the more extensive class called winter squash somewhere else. Local to North America, pumpkins are generally developed for business utilize and are utilized both in sustenance and diversion. Pumpkin pie, for example, is a conventional piece of Thanksgiving dinners in Canada and the United States, albeit economically canned pumpkin puree and pumpkin pie fillings are normally produced using various types of winter squash than the pumpkins oftentimes cut as jack-o'- lamps for adornment around Halloween.
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