Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun prairie_gourd

2 senses of prairie gourd

Sense 1
prairie gourd -- (small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant)
       => fruit -- (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

Sense 2
prairie gourd, prairie gourd vine, Missouri gourd, wild pumpkin, buffalo gourd, calabazilla, Cucurbita foetidissima -- (perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit)
       => gourd, gourd vine -- (any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds)