gourd
Noun
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Bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd (synset 103454395)
is a type 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 cappedsame as: calabash
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Any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds (synset 112178548)
is a type of: fruit - the ripened reproductive body of a seed plantsubtypes: calabash - round gourd of the calabash tree
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Any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds (synset 112178286)
is a type of: vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surfacesubtypes:
- 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
belongs to: cucurbitaceae, family cucurbitaceae, gourd family - a family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin)same as: gourd vine
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