noun
Refers to the plant Lagenaria siceraria var. hispida, whose fruit is used as a vegetable or dried to make containers.
夕顔の実を乾燥させて、ひょうたんを作ります。
We dry the fruit of the bottle gourd to make a calabash.
夕顔は夏に白い花を咲かせます。
The bottle gourd blooms white flowers in summer.
noun
Colloquial name for the moonflower (Ipomoea alba), a night-blooming morning glory relative. Often distinguished from 夜顔 (the true moonflower) in botanical contexts.
See also: 夜顔
夕顔は夜に大きな白い花を咲かせる。
The moonflower blooms large white flowers at night.
From 夕 (evening) + 顔 (face), referring to the flowers that bloom in the evening.