calabash vs gourd

calabash and gourd both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
calabash	Yes	No	No	No
gourd	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, calabash and gourd are synonyms defined as:

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

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

calabash: Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits
gourd: any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds

Other hypernyms of calabash include gourd vine.

calabash (noun)	gourd (noun)
bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd	bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd	any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds
tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds	any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds
round gourd of the calabash tree
Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits