Gourd - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: gourdGourd
A fleshy three celled many seeded fruit as the melon pumpkin cucumber etc of the order Cucurbitaceaelig and especially the bottle gourd Lagenaria vulgaris which occurs in a great variety of forms and when the interior part is removed serves for bottles dippers cups and other dishes...
Pepo
Any fleshy fruit with a firm rind as a pumpkin melon or gourd See Gourd...
Bockey
A bowl or vessel made from a gourd...
Calabash
The common gourd plant or fruit...
Chayote
a tropical West Indian vine Sechium edule of the gourd family which bears small white flowers and produces an edible fruit...
Colocynth
The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber Citrullus colocynthis or Cucumis colocynthis an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon coloquintida It comes in white balls is intensely bitter and a powerful cathartic Called also bitter apple bitter cucumber bitter gourd...
Cucumis
A genus of plants including the cucumber melon and same kinds of gourds...
Cucurbit
A vessel or flask for distillation used with or forming part of an alembic a matrass originally in the shape of a gourd with a wide mouth See Alembic...
Cucurbitaceous
Of pertaining to or resembling a family of plants of which the cucumber melon and gourd are common examples...
Cucurbitive
Having the shape of a gourd seed said of certain small worms...
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