balsam pear vs gourd

balsam pear and gourd both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
balsam pear	Yes	No	No	No
gourd	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, gourd is a hypernym of balsam pear; that is, gourd is a word with a broader meaning than balsam pear:

balsam pear: tropical Old World vine with yellow-orange fruit
gourd: any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds

Other hypernyms of balsam pear include gourd vine.

balsam pear (noun)	gourd (noun)
tropical Old World vine with yellow-orange fruit	bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
	any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds
	any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds