Vegetables names

[Tait-ka]

A:



B:


what do you call these vegetables in English?

 

[emsr2d2]

What do you think we call them? What information have you found out by Googling what they're called in English?

 

[Tait-ka]

What do you think we call them? What information have you found out by Googling what they're called in English?

I googled. Some call the the A one 'pumpkin', some call it 'squash'. They call the B one bottle round gourd.
I am not sure about whether native speakers also call them this way.

 

[probus]

In my region we call A a squash. We reserve pumpkin for the orange ones that are carved into jackolanterns for halloween. B we'd call summer squash, which also comes in many other varieties such as zucchini or cougettes.

 

[Tait-ka]

Can I have comments from English speakers from UK and US too?

 

[probus]

InCanada we speak AmE.

 

[emsr2d2]

What do you call these vegetables in English?

Don't forget to start every sentence with a capital letter.

I'd probably call the first one either a squash or a pumpkin. I've never seen the second one so I would simply know that it's a gourd of some kind.

 

[Skrej]

As an AmE speaker, I'd normally call A a 'squash' if I wasn't already familiar with it. However, I'm familiar with it from various Asian cuisines to know it's called a (variously) Japanese/Korean/Asian 'pumpkin'. Without that prior familiarity I'd just call it a 'squash'. Regardless, it's clearly edible, and not a gourd. (It's also fantastic for grilling and roasting!)

I don't recognize B. Depending upon whether or not its interior flesh is eaten and what it's used for, it could be a squash or gourd.

Typically 'gourds' aren't consumed (at least in AmE usage). Gourds also usually have thinner rinds and interior cavities filled with seeds and webbing instead of solid flesh. Often they're dried and hollowed out for vessels or other craft projects.