prairie gourd

Questions about prairie gourd

What does prairie gourd mean?

prairie gourd means "small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for prairie gourd?

Close synonyms include prairie gourd vine, Missouri gourd, 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 prairie gourd a common word?

prairie gourd is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.