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Cucurbita foetidissima, Missouri gourd, buffalo gourd, calabazilla, prairie gourd, prairie gourd vine, wild pumpkin
perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit
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melon, melon vine
any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers
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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
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Lagenaria siceraria, bottle gourd, calabash
Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits
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Momordica balsamina, balsam apple
a tropical Old World flowering vine with red or orange warty fruit
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Momordica charantia, balsam pear
tropical Old World vine with yellow-orange fruit
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Citrullus vulgaris, watermelon, watermelon vine
an African melon
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Cucumis melo, muskmelon, sweet melon, sweet melon vine
any of several varieties of vine whose fruit has a netted rind and edible flesh and a musky smell
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Cucumis sativus, cucumber, cucumber vine
a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit