touch-me-not vs gourd

gourd vs touch-me-not

touch-me-not and gourd both are nouns.

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

As nouns, gourd is a hypernym of touch-me-not; that is, gourd is a word with a broader meaning than touch-me-not:

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

Other hypernyms of touch-me-not include gourd vine.

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

Difference between touch-me-not and gourd

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