<Li> In Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, the main character, Jack Skellington, is "the Pumpkin King ." </Li> <Li> Precious Ramotswe, the fictional detective from Botswana in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series of novels by Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith, often cooks and eats pumpkin . </Li> <Li> In a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Feathertop from 1852, a witch turns a scarecrow with a "pumpkinhead" into a man . </Li> <Li> The Spider - Man villains the Green Goblin and Hobgoblin use small, handheld "pumpkin bombs" as a signature weapon . </Li>

A vegetable which is also known as a fruit