buffalo gourd

English Thesaurus

1. perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	gourd, gourd vine,
definition	:	any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds (noun.plant)

part holonym	:	prairie gourd,
definition	:	small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	cucurbita, genus cucurbita,
definition	:	type genus of the Cucurbitaceae (noun.plant)