sour gourd

sour gourd

n 1. (Plants) a large bombacaceous tree, Adansonia gregorii, of N Australia, having gourdlike fruit 2. (Cookery) the acid-tasting fruit of this tree, which has a woody rind and large seeds 3. (Plants) the fruit of the baobab tree

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Noun

1.sour gourd - Australian tree having an agreeably acid fruit that resembles a gourdAdansonia gregorii, cream-of-tartar treesour gourd - acid-tasting Australian gourd-like fruit with a woody rind and large seedsAdansonia, genus Adansonia - baobab; cream-of-tartar treeangiospermous tree, flowering tree - any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary

2.sour gourd - African gourd-like fruit with edible pulpmonkey breadedible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet fleshAdansonia 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

3.sour gourd - acid-tasting Australian gourd-like fruit with a woody rind and large seedsedible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet fleshAdansonia gregorii, cream-of-tartar tree, sour gourd - Australian tree having an agreeably acid fruit that resembles a gourd