Akademik

buffalo gourd

noun

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

• Syn: ↑prairie gourd, ↑prairie gourd vine, ↑Missouri gourd, ↑wild pumpkin, ↑calabazilla, ↑Cucurbita foetidissima

• Hypernyms: ↑gourd, ↑gourd vine

• Member Holonyms: ↑Cucurbita, ↑genus Cucurbita

• Part Meronyms: ↑prairie gourd

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noun

Etymology: so called from its location in buffalo country

: calabazilla

Useful english dictionary. 2012.