gourd vs touch-me-not

touch-me-not vs gourd

gourd and touch-me-not both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
gourd	Yes	No	No	No
touch-me-not	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, touch-me-not is a hyponym of gourd; that is, touch-me-not is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than gourd:

gourd: any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds
touch-me-not: Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched

Other hyponyms of gourd include buffalo gourd, calabazilla, Cucurbita foetidissima, Missouri gourd, prairie gourd, prairie gourd vine, wild pumpkin, melon, melon vine, Ecballium elaterium, exploding cucumber, squirting cucumber, bottle gourd, calabash, Lagenaria siceraria, balsam apple, Momordica balsamina, balsam pear, Momordica charantia.

gourd (noun)	touch-me-not (noun)
bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd	North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil
any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds	Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched
any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds	prostrate or semi-erect subshrub of tropical America, and Australia; heavily armed with recurved thorns and having sensitive soft grey-green leaflets that fold and droop at night or when touched or cooled

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