BOTTLE GOURD

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Meaning:

Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits

Synonyms:

bottle gourd; calabash; Lagenaria siceraria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bottle gourd" is a kind of...):

gourd; gourd vine (any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds)

Holonyms ("bottle gourd" is a member of...):

genus Lagenaria; Lagenaria (bottle gourds)