missouri gourd

Questions about missouri gourd

What does missouri gourd mean?

missouri 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 missouri gourd?

Close synonyms include prairie gourd, prairie gourd vine, wild pumpkin, buffalo gourd, 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 missouri gourd a common word?

missouri 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.