PRAIRIE GOURD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prairie gourd mean? 

• PRAIRIE GOURD (noun)
  The noun PRAIRIE GOURD has 2 senses:

1. small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant

2. perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit

  Familiarity information: PRAIRIE GOURD used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRAIRIE GOURD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

Holonyms ("prairie gourd" is a part of...):

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

buffalo gourd; calabazilla; Cucurbita foetidissima; Missouri gourd; prairie gourd; prairie gourd vine; wild pumpkin

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

gourd; gourd vine (any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds)

Meronyms (parts of "prairie gourd"):

prairie gourd (small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant)

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

Cucurbita; genus Cucurbita (type genus of the Cucurbitaceae)