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gourd vine

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Noun1.gourd vinegourd vine - any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds
Cucurbitaceae, family Cucurbitaceae, gourd family - a family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin)
buffalo 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 fruit
melon vine, melon - any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers
Ecballium elaterium, exploding cucumber, squirting cucumber, touch-me-not - Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched
bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria, calabash - Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits
balsam apple, Momordica balsamina - a tropical Old World flowering vine with red or orange warty fruit
balsam pear, Momordica charantia - tropical Old World vine with yellow-orange fruit
vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface


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There in the early 1930s, Hurston encountered the paternal grandparents of historian John Bracey during her creation of Jonah's Gourd Vine.
For example, the founding of Eatonville is fore-grounded in one of the chapters, and Patterson shows just how cleverly disguised Hurston's accounts are of that event, particularly those found in Their Eyes Were Watching God and Jonah's Gourd Vine.
The vendors displayed their wares under a trellis covered with gourd vines, hundreds of still-growing gourds hanging above their heads.
 
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