Lexic.us

Definition of Sour gourd

1. Noun. Australian tree having an agreeably acid fruit that resembles a gourd.

2. Noun. African gourd-like fruit with edible pulp.

3. Noun. Acid-tasting Australian gourd-like fruit with a woody rind and large seeds.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sour Gourd

soupspoonful soupspoonfuls soupspoons soupy souq souqs sour sour-gum family sour bread sour cherries

sour cherry sour cherry tree sour cream sour dock sour fig sour gourd (current term) sour grapes sour gum sour krout sour mash

sour mash whiskey sour note sour orange sour puss sour pusses sour salt sourball sourbellies

Literary usage of Sour gourd

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Food and Hygiene: An Elementary Treatise Upon Dietetics and Hygienic Treatment by William Tibbles (1907)
"The calabash, baobab, or sour-gourd of North Africa, and another sour- gourd in Australia, are large fruit, the pulp of which is acid but pleasant. ..."

2. Every Man His Own Gardener: The Complete Gardener : Being a Gardener's by John Abercrombie, Thomas Mawe (1832)
"... Ethiopian sour-gourd. ... or Ethiopian sour- gourd of Senegal, Digitated, or finger leaved adansonia. ..."

3. King's American Dispensatory by John King, Harvey Wickes Felter, John Uri Lloyd (1905)
"Baobab, Monkey-bread tree, Sour-gourd tree, Cream-of-tartar tree. ... and also known as monkey-bread, cream of tartar tree, and sour-gourd tree. ..."

4. The To-morrow of Death; Or, The Future Life According to Science by Louis Figuier (1888)
"To these colossi of the animal kingdom let us oppose the colossi of the vegetable: the enormous sour gourd which covers with its shade hundreds of square ..."

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