1. Acid-tasting Australian gourd-like fruit with a woody rind and large seeds
   "The indigenous people used the sour gourd in traditional medicine"
    
2. African gourd-like fruit with edible pulp
   "Tourists were intrigued by the unusual shape of the sour gourd fruit";
   - monkey bread
    
3. Australian tree having an agreeably acid fruit that resembles a gourd
   "Children enjoyed the tart taste of the sour gourd fruit";
   - cream-of-tartar tree, Adansonia gregorii

Derived forms: sour gourds

Type of: angiospermous tree, edible fruit, flowering tree

Part of: Adansonia, Adansonia digitata, baobab, genus Adansonia, monkey-bread tree

Encyclopedia: Sour gourd