gourd : Idioms & Phrases

• . (Bot.) See Colocynth.

Webster 1913

• colocynth.

Webster 1913

• noun Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits
  calabash; Lagenaria siceraria.
  

WordNet

• (Bot.), the common gourd or calabash (Lagenaria Vulgaris), whose shell is used for bottles, dippers, etc.

Webster 1913

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

WordNet

• noun any of several tropical annual climbers having large yellow flowers and edible young fruits; grown commercially for the mature fruit's dried fibrous interior that is used as a sponge
  rag gourd; dishcloth gourd; strainer vine; luffa.
  

WordNet

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

WordNet

Gourd" tree"

Definitions

1. (Bot.) A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the West Indies and Central America.

Webster 1913

• noun any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds
  gourd.
  

WordNet

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

WordNet

• noun small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant
  
• noun perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit
  wild pumpkin; Cucurbita foetidissima; Missouri gourd; calabazilla; buffalo gourd; prairie gourd.
  

WordNet

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

WordNet

• noun any of several tropical annual climbers having large yellow flowers and edible young fruits; grown commercially for the mature fruit's dried fibrous interior that is used as a sponge
  rag gourd; dishcloth gourd; strainer vine; luffa.
  

WordNet

• (Bot.), a cucurbitaceous plant (Trichosanthes anguina) having the fruit shorter and less snakelike than that of the serpent cucumber.

Webster 1913

• noun Australian tree having an agreeably acid fruit that resembles a gourd
  Adansonia gregorii; cream-of-tartar tree.
  
• noun African gourd-like fruit with edible pulp
  monkey bread.
  
• noun acid-tasting Australian gourd-like fruit with a woody rind and large seeds
  

WordNet

• (Bot.), the gourdlike fruit Adansonia Gregorii, and A. digitata; also, either of the trees bearing this fruit. See Adansonia.

Webster 1913

• noun any of several tropical annual climbers having large yellow flowers and edible young fruits; grown commercially for the mature fruit's dried fibrous interior that is used as a sponge
  rag gourd; dishcloth gourd; strainer vine; luffa.
  

WordNet

• . (Bot.) Same as Vegetable marrow, under Vegetable.

Webster 1913

• (Bot.), the fruit of the cucurbitaceous plant Luffa Ægyptiaca; also, the plant itself. The fruit is very fibrous, and, when separated from its rind and seeds, is used as a sponge or towel. Called also Egyptian bath sponge, and dishcloth.

Webster 1913