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    SOUR GOURD

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Acid-tasting Australian gourd-like fruit with a woody rind and large seedsplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting foods and drinks

    Hypernyms ("sour gourd" is a kind of...):

    edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

    Holonyms ("sour gourd" is a part of...):

    Adansonia gregorii; cream-of-tartar tree; sour gourd (Australian tree having an agreeably acid fruit that resembles a gourd)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    African gourd-like fruit with edible pulpplay

    Synonyms:

    monkey bread; sour gourd

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting foods and drinks

    Hypernyms ("sour gourd" is a kind of...):

    edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

    Holonyms ("sour gourd" is a part of...):

    Adansonia digitata; baobab; monkey-bread tree (African tree having an exceedingly thick trunk and fruit that resembles a gourd and has an edible pulp called monkey bread)

    Sense 3

    Meaning:

    Australian tree having an agreeably acid fruit that resembles a gourdplay

    Synonyms:

    Adansonia gregorii; cream-of-tartar tree; sour gourd

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("sour gourd" is a kind of...):

    angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)

    Meronyms (parts of "sour gourd"):

    sour gourd (acid-tasting Australian gourd-like fruit with a woody rind and large seeds)

    Holonyms ("sour gourd" is a member of...):

    Adansonia; genus Adansonia (baobab; cream-of-tartar tree)

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