noun
1. small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant
• Hypernyms: ↑fruit
• Part Holonyms: ↑prairie gourd vine, ↑Missouri gourd, ↑wild pumpkin, ↑buffalo gourd, ↑calabazilla, ↑Cucurbita foetidissima
2. perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit
• Syn: ↑prairie gourd vine, ↑Missouri gourd, ↑wild pumpkin, ↑buffalo gourd, ↑calabazilla, ↑Cucurbita foetidissima
• Hypernyms: ↑gourd, ↑gourd vine
• Member Holonyms: ↑Cucurbita, ↑genus Cucurbita
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noun : a perennial gourd (Cucurbita foetidissima) of dry parts of the central and southwestern United States and Mexico that has a thick fusiform taproot, ovate to slightly lobed leaves, and a small hard smooth bitter green-and-orange fruit
Useful english dictionary. 2012.