GOURD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gourd mean? 

• GOURD (noun)
  The noun GOURD has 3 senses:

1. bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd

2. any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds

3. any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds

  Familiarity information: GOURD used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOURD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

calabash; gourd

Hypernyms ("gourd" is a kind of...):

bottle (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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("gourd" is a kind of...):

fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gourd"):

calabash (round gourd of the calabash tree)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

gourd; gourd vine

Hypernyms ("gourd" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gourd"):

buffalo gourd; calabazilla; Cucurbita foetidissima; Missouri gourd; prairie gourd; prairie gourd vine; wild pumpkin (perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit)

melon; melon vine (any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers)

Ecballium elaterium; exploding cucumber; squirting cucumber; touch-me-not (Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched)

bottle gourd; calabash; Lagenaria siceraria (Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits)

balsam apple; Momordica balsamina (a tropical Old World flowering vine with red or orange warty fruit)

balsam pear; Momordica charantia (tropical Old World vine with yellow-orange fruit)

Holonyms ("gourd" is a member of...):

Cucurbitaceae; family Cucurbitaceae; gourd family (a family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin))