A family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin)
1Pumpkin is a member of the gourd family, which includes cucumbers, honeydew melons, cantaloupe, watermelons and zucchini.
2Collinquintida Ð a bitter apple of the gourd family whose soft fruit made a purgative drug 59.
3Many similar cases of analogous variation have been observed by Naudin in the great gourd family, and by various authors in our cereals.
Translations for gourd family