sour gourd

sour gourd

n

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / 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. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) the fruit of the baobab tree

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	sour gourd - Australian tree having an agreeably acid fruit that resembles a gourd Adansonia gregorii, cream-of-tartar tree sour gourd - acid-tasting Australian gourd-like fruit with a woody rind and large seeds Adansonia, genus Adansonia - baobab; cream-of-tartar tree angiospermous tree, flowering tree - any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary
	2.	sour gourd - African gourd-like fruit with edible pulp monkey bread edible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh Adansonia 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 seeds edible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh Adansonia gregorii, cream-of-tartar tree, sour gourd - Australian tree having an agreeably acid fruit that resembles a gourd