gourd vine

1. 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 surface
   subtypes:

   • 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

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