Quest: Mysterious fruit names from Venezuela

Question

Everybody invited! (except natives from Venezuela!)

In Venezuela, there are some fruits with a particular names that maybe you don't

hear in other Spanish countries.

Here are three different fruits, can you guess the names people from Venezuela

give them?

Do not check on the web

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First Fruit:

Second Fruit:

Third Fruit:

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Post all your answers in Spanish and let's see who guesses first. I will give

hints in comments, and corrections.

Remember: You

cannot search on the web!

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pues - no tengo ni idea! tendré que esperar la respuesta. Buen hilo :) - patch, Sep 12, 2011

Gracuas, patch, pues intenta... más tarde daré pistas... - Animalescus, Sep 12, 2011

Deberías decir que no se admiten respuestas de venezolanos o de personas que hayan vivido en Venezuela, porque si no está demasiado papayita. ;-) - Gekkosan, Sep 12, 2011

Answer 1

1.cambur

2.parchita

3.lechoza

Congratulations Lorenzo9, well done! I'm pretty sure I'll never forget the names of this fruits :) - Animalescus, Sep 14, 2011

Answer 2

1st one: cambur instead of plátano?

2nd: ni idea

3rd: that's a papaya, but I'm not familiar w/ any other terms for it

I will be watching this.

First one is correct! but is cambur instead of banano. Good One Deanski. And you're right, the third one is Papaya but is no the correct name for a venezuelan term. - Animalescus, Sep 12, 2011

But isn't banano the tree, just like for apples manzano is the tree & manzana is the fruit? - Deanski, Sep 12, 2011

En Colombia se conoce la fruta como banano como el árbol. - Animalescus, Sep 12, 2011

Qué interesante! Menos mal que en inglés el cambur se llama banana en todas partes.:) - Deanski, Sep 12, 2011

Aquí en Guatemala la fruta se llama "bananO" también - --Mariana--, Sep 13, 2011

Answer 3

The second one looks like maracuyá, but I don't know any other word for it.

That is correct, It is a maracuyá, but it has other name in Venezuela :) - Animalescus, Sep 12, 2011

Answer 4

Hint!

The name of the third fruit sounds like:

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¡jezú! pero eso qué es????? ::::sigh:::: - 00494d19, Sep 13, 2011

leche casa? - sanlee, Sep 13, 2011

Moooooooo hut? L O L - --Mariana--, Sep 13, 2011

Je, je. Esa pista está bien oscura y compleja, aunque tiene sentido si ya conoces la palabra. :-) En cualquier caso, ¿la fruta que dices no es la grande? La pequeña se llama distinto, ¿no? - Gekkosan, Sep 13, 2011

Gekko, era la pista para la tercera fruta. - Animalescus, Sep 13, 2011

Milkhut? lol Milquet?? Lechechoza? Ni idea :P - Goldie_Miel, Sep 13, 2011

Lorenzo adivinó el nombre de esta fruta, Lechoza :) - Animalescus, Sep 13, 2011

Answer 5

1.already done

2.Jugoza

3.Lechoza.

lechoza, eso iba a poner yo, vamos a esperar - 00494d19, Sep 13, 2011

Not Jugoza. - Gekkosan, Sep 13, 2011

The third one is correct! - Animalescus, Sep 13, 2011

Answer 6

Lechusa? Lechuza?

Very close... just fail in one letter, Lech*za... - Animalescus, Sep 12, 2011

Answer 7

1. Luna Amarilla
2. Citron
3. Palta

I don't even know what the third one is in English but it looks like an avocado and I know that's Palta in Argentina.

I should eat more fruit and veg >_

No, not even close... Sorry. A hint, the second fruit is a citric one. - Animalescus, Sep 12, 2011

Avocado has a big stone. #3 has lots of black seeds (I know its name, but alas, not any peculiar venezuelan name) - pesta, Sep 12, 2011

Answer 8

Parchita

Yes!!! correct, good one, please Lorenzo, put all the answers to stablish you the winner :) - Animalescus, Sep 14, 2011

Answer 9

Parchiza

So close... - Gekkosan, Sep 14, 2011

Very close, but no... - Animalescus, Sep 14, 2011

Answer 10

Parchisi

No, a Hint, the last letter is an "a" - Animalescus, Sep 14, 2011

And no is not Parchisa, :) - Animalescus, Sep 14, 2011

Answer 11

Pachis? Parchis?

Hmm, this would mean nothing in Spain, but...

You have two of three syllables, par-chi-?? - Animalescus, Sep 13, 2011

Answer 12

Porchisi?

Close, but no... :) - Animalescus, Sep 13, 2011

Answer 13

I had a tree growing in the backyard producing #3 the size of watermelons.

Papaya is my favorite fruit...where were you when you had that tree? - --Mariana--, Sep 13, 2011

Caracas, Venezuela. It's called a lechoza down there. - KevinB, Sep 13, 2011

Well,since the cat is out of the bag: to me lechoza is the big one that Kevin's talking about. The little ones I call papayas - papayitas. - Gekkosan, Sep 13, 2011

Answer 14

I don't have any idea, but I could not find a lemon in Peru. They only seemed to have limes. This is really interesting. Thank you for sharing.

I have looked, and asked, everywhere for a lemon in Guatemala....they don't exist!!! It's limes or nothing! - --Mariana--, Sep 13, 2011

No no. You gals have it backwards. Those are LEMONS - green ones. Those yellow things are something else altogether. Yellow lemons, if you wish. - Gekkosan, Sep 13, 2011

Answer 15

Yo sé la primera:

Plátano en vez de banana, jeje, solo estoy bromeando, no tengo ni idea

Plátano es una fruta diferente al banano o cambur, de hecho se come distinto. - Animalescus, Sep 12, 2011