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Noun: prairie gourd
  1. Small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant
     
  2. Perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit
    - prairie gourd vine, Missouri gourd, wild pumpkin, buffalo gourd, calabazilla, Cucurbita foetidissima

Derived forms: prairie gourds

Type of: fruit, gourd, gourd vine

Part of: Cucurbita, genus Cucurbita

Encyclopedia: Prairie gourd

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