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means A custard-style pie made from cooked pumpkin (or similar squash), eggs, sugar, and warming spices, baked in a pastry crust and most associated with autumn and American Thanksgiving.

from 'Pumpkin' traces back through French 'pompon' and Latin 'pepo' to Greek 'pepōn,' meaning something like 'ripe' or 'cooked by the sun' — originally used for melons, not the orange squash we picture now. Early colonial American cooks took the gourd and, lacking much else to do with it, boiled it down and baked it into pies, sometimes literally hollowing out the pumpkin itself and filling it with milk and spices before putting it in the fire. The spice mix we now call 'pumpkin spice' — cinnamon, ginger, clove, nutmeg — came from the same global spice trade that flavored so much other colonial-era baking, eventually fusing with the humble squash to make the dish an American icon.