prairie gourd vine

Questions about prairie gourd vine

What does prairie gourd vine mean?

prairie gourd vine 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 prairie gourd vine?

Close synonyms include prairie gourd, 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 vine a common word?

prairie gourd vine 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.