The noun has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1:
small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant
Meaning #2:
perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit
Synonyms: prairie gourd vine, Missouri gourd, wild pumpkin, buffalo gourd, calabazilla, Cucurbita foetidissima



