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Which Cucurbitales family contains cucumbers, squashes, gourds, and pumpkins?

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A pile of freshly harvested pumpkins and gourds in various shapes, with striped patterns in shades of yellow, orange, and green. — Cucurbitales Pumpkins and gourds, order Cucurbitales.

The family within the order Cucurbitales that contains cucumbers, squashes, gourds, and pumpkins is Cucurbitaceae.12

Commonly known as the gourd family, this group includes approximately 98 genera and 975 species of flowering plants, many of which are important food crops.1