The word 'pumpkin' can refer to a number of squashes as genetically dissimilar to each other as acorn and butternut squash

(NaturalNews) Most people immediately recognize a similarity between pumpkins and other kinds of hard-skinned, winter squashes such as acorn squash, butternut squash and spaghetti squash. This leads to the perfectly reasonable assumption that all these names refer to different verities...

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