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Definition of Prairie gourd

1. Noun. Small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant.

2. Noun. Perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prairie Gourd

prairie clover prairie clovers prairie coneflower prairie crab prairie dock prairie dog prairie dogged prairie dogging prairie doggings prairie dogs

prairie fowl prairie fox prairie gentian prairie golden aster prairie gourd (current term) prairie gourd vine prairie grouse prairie lotus prairie mallow prairie marmot

prairie mimosa prairie orchid prairie rattler prairie rattlesnake prairie rocket prairie sage

Literary usage of Prairie gourd

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes of a Military Reconnoissance from Fort Leavenworth, in Missouri, to by William Hemsley Emory (1848)
"... perennis) prairie gourd, and we found it to be infested with those little striped insects that so much annoy the farmer in the United States, ..."

2. Chambers' Edinburgh Journal by Robert Chambers, William Chambers (1851)
"A small convolvulus, known as the " prairie gourd," is lying at his feet. It is globe-shaped, about the size of an orange, and not unlike one in colour. lie ..."

3. The scalp hunters; or, Romantic adventures in northern Mexico by Mayne Reid (1851)
"A small convolvulus—known as the " prairie gourd"—is lying at his feet. It is globe-shaped, about the size of an orange, and not unlike one in colour. ..."

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