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Gourds vs Calabash - What's the difference?

gourds | calabash |

As nouns the difference between gourds and calabash

is that gourds is plural of gourd while calabash is a vine grown for its fruit, which can be harvested young and used as a vegetable, or harvested mature, dried, and used as a container, like a gourd. In particular, species: Lagenaria siceraria.

gourds

English

Noun

(head)
    • ---- ==Jèrriais==

    Adjective

    (roa-jer-adj-form)

    • calabash

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia calabash) (es)
  • A vine grown for its fruit, which can be harvested young and used as a vegetable, or harvested mature, dried.
  • # (originally) The fruit of such a vine.
  • A tree grown for its fruit, which can be harvested mature and dried.
  • #The fruit of such a tree.
  • A utensil traditionally made of the dried shell of a calabash and used as a bottle, dipper, utensil or pipe, etc.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "calabash")

    Synonyms

    * gourd, bottle gourd