sour gourd
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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 - 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. | ![]() 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 |
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