gourd
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1. bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd (noun.artifact)
hypernym | : | bottle, |
definition | : | a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped (noun.artifact) |
2. any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds (noun.plant)
hypernym | : | vine, |
definition | : | a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | buffalo gourd, calabazilla, cucurbita foetidissima, missouri gourd, prairie gourd, prairie gourd vine, wild pumpkin, |
definition | : | perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | melon, melon vine, |
definition | : | any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | ecballium elaterium, exploding cucumber, squirting cucumber, touch-me-not, |
definition | : | Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | bottle gourd, calabash, lagenaria siceraria, |
definition | : | Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | balsam apple, momordica balsamina, |
definition | : | a tropical Old World flowering vine with red or orange warty fruit (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | balsam pear, momordica charantia, |
definition | : | tropical Old World vine with yellow-orange fruit (noun.plant) |
member meronym | : | cucurbitaceae, family cucurbitaceae, gourd family, |
definition | : | a family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin) (noun.plant) |
3. any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds (noun.plant)
hypernym | : | fruit, |
definition | : | the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant (noun.plant) |
hyponym | : | calabash, |
definition | : | round gourd of the calabash tree (noun.plant) |
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