Gourd

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  • noun. Any of several trailing or climbing cucurbit plants bearing fruits with a hard rind, especially Lagenaria siceraria and a variety of Cucurbita pepo.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The fruit of such a plant, sometimes of unusual shape or color.
  • noun. The dried and hollowed-out shell of one of these fruits, often used as a container or as a decorative object.
  • idiom. (off/out of) Very foolish; crazy.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Same as calabazilla.
  • noun. The bigroot of Oregon, Micrampelis Oregona.
  • noun. Formerly, the fruit of one of the usually cultivated species of various cucurbitaceous genera, including what are now distinguished as meions, pumpkins, squashes, etc., as well as gourds in the present sense; the plant producing such fruit, Now, in a restricted sense, the fruit of Lagenaria vulgaris; the plant itself, in its Several varieties.
  • noun. A dried and excavated gourd-shell prepared for use as a bottle or dipper, or in other ways.
  • noun. A gourd-shaped vessel; hence, any vessel with a small neck for holding liquids; a roughly shaped bottle, especially a flask carried by travelers or pilgrims.
  • noun. plural [A particular use of gourd, with ref. to their hollowness.] A kind of false dice, having a concealed cavity which affects the balance. See fullam, 1.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A fleshy, three-celled, many-seeded fruit, as the melon, pumpkin, cucumber, etc., of the order Cucurbitaceæ; and especially the bottle gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris) which occurs in a great variety of forms, and, when the interior part is removed, serves for bottles, dippers, cups, and other dishes.
  • noun. A dipper or other vessel made from the shell of a gourd; hence, a drinking vessel; a bottle.
  • noun. colocynth.
  • noun. A silver dollar; -- so called in Cuba, Haiti, etc.
  • noun. A false die. See gord.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any of the climbing or trailing plants from the family Cucurbitaceae, which includes watermelon, pumpkins and cucumbers.
  • noun. A fruit from a plant that is a member of the Cucurbitaceae family.
  • noun. The dried and hardened shell of a gourd fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration.
  • noun. Head.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
  • noun. any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds
  • noun. any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds
  • Word Usage
    "Note, The withering of a gourd is a thing which it does not become us to be angry at."
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    bottle  
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    Ford  Lord  Verwoerd  Ward  abhorred  
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    gord