- The common gourd (plant or fruit). - The fruit of the calabash tree. - A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made
from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.
- The edible fruit of a West Indian plant (Sechium edule) of
the Gourd family. It is soft, pear-shaped, and about four inches long,
and contains a single large seed. The root of the plant resembles a
yam, and is used for food.
- The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter
cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied
to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely
bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter
cucumber, bitter gourd.