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buffalo gourd

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Noun1.buffalo gourdbuffalo gourd - perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit
calabazilla, Cucurbita foetidissima, Missouri gourd, prairie gourd vine, wild pumpkin, prairie gourd
gourd vine, gourd - any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds
Cucurbita, genus Cucurbita - type genus of the Cucurbitaceae
prairie gourd - small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant


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In contrast, insects have to contact the cucurbitacin in buffalo gourd and the bitter melon before they feed on it.
The Bitter End by RALOFF, JANET / Science News
And cultivation trials with buffalo gourd in Arizona indicate that a three-month crop delivers almost twice the yield of mesquite grown for one year on dryland sites - 11 metric tons per hectare for the root versus 6 metric tons for mesquite.
Digging up cleaner-burning cooking fuels by Raloff, Janet / Science News
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