buffalo gourd

Questions about buffalo gourd

What does buffalo gourd mean?

buffalo gourd means "perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit".

What is another word for buffalo gourd?

Close synonyms include prairie gourd, prairie gourd vine, Missouri gourd, wild pumpkin, calabazilla. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is buffalo gourd a common word?

buffalo gourd is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.