sour gourd

Questions about sour gourd

What does sour gourd mean?

sour gourd means "Australian tree having an agreeably acid fruit that resembles a gourd". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for sour gourd?

Close synonyms include cream-of-tartar tree, Adansonia gregorii, monkey bread. 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 sour gourd a common word?

sour gourd is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.