GOURD Antonyms

• a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit

• cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons

• egg-shaped vegetable having a shiny skin typically dark purple but occasionally white or yellow

• hairy upright herb native to southeastern Asia but widely cultivated for its large glossy edible fruit commonly used as a vegetable

• the fruit of a variety of winter melon vine; a large smooth greenish-white melon with pale green flesh

• a sugar-rich sticky liquid, secreted by aphids and some scale insects as they feed on plant sap.

• an edible tuber native to South America; a staple food of Ireland

• annual native to South America having underground stolons bearing edible starchy tubers; widely cultivated as a garden vegetable; vines are poisonous

• a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes

• usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn

• any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits

• edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable

• a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets

• to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition

• mildly acid red or yellow pulpy fruit eaten as a vegetable

• native to South America; widely cultivated in many varieties

• an African melon

• large oblong or roundish melon with a hard green rind and sweet watery red or occasionally yellowish pulp

• marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small

• small cucumber-shaped vegetable marrow; typically dark green