On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 03:21:03 -0700 (PDT), Cindy Hamilton
> wrote:

>On Tuesday, April 9, 2019 at 4:59:34 PM UTC-4, Bruce wrote:
>
>> That's the terminology problem. To me there's only pumpkin, edible or
>> ornamental, and zucchini.
>
>If you call everything "pumpkin", how can anybody know what you're actually
>referring to?

There are various versions, just like there are versions of apples,
but they're all pumpkins or apples.

>Do you call all summer squashes "zucchini"? The yellow crooknecks? The
>pattypans?

I've seen and grown green zucchinis and yellow (golden) ones. I've
never seen a crookneck. I've seen yellow "pattypans". I don't know
what they're called here. Squash maybe. An American invention maybe.
If they're available in the Netherlands, they're a new thing there.