Research Results For 'Gourd'

CALABASH

A calabash is a vessel made of a dried gourd-shell or of a calabash shell, used in some parts of America and Africa. They are so close-grained and hard that when they contain any liquid they may be put several times on the fire as kettles.
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LOOFAH

A loofah or luffa is the fibrous skeleton of the cylindrical fruit of the dishcloth gourd (Luffa cylindrica). It is used as a bath sponge.
Research Loofah

BOTTLE GOURD

The Bottle gourd or calabash is a plant of the genus Lagenaria and family Cucurbitaceae. The common bottle gourd is a native of India and is cultivated in other warm climates. It is a creeping plant with white flowers, and its bottle shaped fruit, with a hard rind, used for holding water is termed a calabash.
Research Bottle Gourd

CUCUMBER

Cucumber is the fruit of Cucumissativus, or the plant itself, belonging to the Cucurbitaceae or gourd order, and supposed to have been originally imported into Europe from the Levant. Though grown in England in the 14th century, it did not become generally used until after the reign of Henry VIII. Cucumber is an annual with rough trailing stems, large angular leaves, and yellow male and female flowers set in the axils of the leaf-stalks. Other species of the cucumber genus are Cucumis Melo, the common melon, and the water melon, Cucumis Citrullus.
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CUCURBITACEAE

Cucurbitaceae is the gourd order, a large and important group of herbaceous annual or perennial plants, with alternate leaves palmately veined and scabrous, and unisexual flowers and with succulent stems which climb by means of tendrils which spring from the base of the leaf-stalks. The leaves are usually lobed and rough; the flowers often large, white, red or yellow; the fruit juicy or fleshy. The sterna are scabrous, and the general habit is climbing or trailing, by means of tendrils. The order contains at least fifty-six genera and about 300 known species, and abounds in useful or remarkable plants, including the melon, gourd, cucumber, colocynth, bryony, etc. They are natives of both hemispheres, chiefly within the tropics. The annuals, however, are common in European gardens.
Research Cucurbitaceae

GOURD

Gourd (Cucurbita) is a genus of plants of the family Cucurbitaceae. The genus includes edible species such as the marrow, pumpkin, water melon and also inedible species grown for their decorative appeal.
Research Gourd

MARROW

The Marrow (Cucurbia Pepo ovifera) is an annual trailing plant of the gourd family grown for its fruits which are eaten as a vegetable.
Research Marrow

PUMPKIN

The pumpkin or vegetable marrow (Cucurbita pepo, Cucurbita maxima) is several annual, creeping, trailing plants of the gourd genus with heart shaped five lobed leaves and a large egg-shaped or globose yellow-orange edible fruit which is popularly cooked and eaten as a vegetable or in a pie and also hollowed out to make lanterns for Halloween.
Research Pumpkin

SQUASH

Squash (Cucurbita Melopepo) is a gourd cultivated in America as an article of food.
Research Squash

SQUIRTING CUCUMBER

The Squirting Cucumber (Ecbalium elaterium) is an annual herb of the natural order Cucurbitaceae, native to the Mediterranean region. It has trailing stems and heart-shaped leaves with toothed margins. The flowers are yellow, and the fruit is a small, green, prickly gourd. When the fruit is ripe, it parts from its stalk and violently ejects its seeds, together with the thin pulp surrounding them, through the base.
Research Squirting Cucumber

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