Local Names of Fruits and Vegetables in the English-speaking Caribbean |
Common terms and phrases
Ackee Almond apple Sugar apple Arrowroot Avocado pear B.V.I. Caym Barb bean Lima bean Beet Berm Black pepper Blackeye pea Breadfruit Breadnut Cantaloupe Cucumber Pumpkin Cashew Cashew Mango Golden Cassava Caym Celery Christophine Coconut Coffee Coffee Lime Custard apple Sugar Dasheen Tannia Eddo Egg plant Garlic Chives Ginger gooseberry Granadilla Black pepper Gren Jackfruit Jackfruit Plantain Banana Lemon Shaddock Citron Lettuce Sweet potato Lima bean Mammee apple Mango Golden apple Mont Musk melon Mustard Cabbage Cauliflower Okra Ortanique Pawpaw Peanut Pigeon pea Pigeon pea Pineapple or Pine Pineapple Tamarind Plantain Banana Nutmeg Pomme rose potato Kohl rabi Radish Water melon Rose apple Sapodilla Seaside grape Pomegranate Shaddock Citron Grapefruit Sour orange Soursop Soursop Custard apple Soya bean species St.K St.L St.V String bean Sugar apple Sweet potato Kohl Tamarind Tamarind Papaw Tangerine Thyme Shallot Onion Tomato Trin Vanilla Watercress Watercress Radish Water West Indian yam Yellow yam