| Noun | 1.prairie gourd - small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plantbuffalo gourd, calabazilla, Cucurbita foetidissima, Missouri gourd, prairie gourd vine, wild pumpkin, prairie gourd - perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruitfruit - the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant | | 2. prairie gourd - perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruitbuffalo gourd, calabazilla, Cucurbita foetidissima, Missouri gourd, prairie gourd vine, wild pumpkingourd vine, gourd - any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rindsCucurbita, genus Cucurbita - type genus of the Cucurbitaceaeprairie gourd - small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant |