English > gourd: 3 senses > noun 3, plant| Meaning | Any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds. |
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| Synonym | gourd vine |
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| Member of | Cucurbitaceae, family Cucurbitaceae, gourd family | A family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin) |
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| Narrower | balsam apple, Momordica balsamina | A tropical Old World flowering vine with red or orange warty fruit |
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| balsam pear, Momordica charantia | Tropical Old World vine with yellow-orange fruit |
| bottle gourd, calabash, Lagenaria siceraria | Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits |
| melon, melon vine | Any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including |
| prairie gourd, prairie gourd vine, Missouri gourd, wild pumpkin, buffalo gourd, calabazilla, Cucurbita foetidissima | perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit |
| squirting cucumber, exploding cucumber, touch-me-not, Ecballium elaterium | Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched |
| Broader | vine | A plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface |
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| Spanish | calabacera, calabaza |
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| Catalan | carabassera, carbassera |
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