gourd vine vs touch-me-not

touch-me-not vs gourd vine

gourd vine and touch-me-not both are nouns.

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

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

gourd vine: 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 vine 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 vine (noun)	touch-me-not (noun)
any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds	North American annual plant with usually yellow or orange flowers; grows chiefly on wet rather acid soil
	Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched
	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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