Gourd

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of several trailing or climbing plants related to the pumpkin, squash, and cucumber and bearing fruits with a hard rind.
  • n. The fruit of such a plant, often of irregular and unusual shape.
  • n. The dried and hollowed-out shell of one of these fruits, often used as a drinking utensil.
  • idiom. off Slang Very foolish; crazy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of the climbing or trailing plants from the family Cucurbitaceae, which includes watermelon, pumpkins and cucumbers.
  • n. A fruit from a plant that is a member of the Cucurbitaceae family.
  • n. The dried and hardened shell of a gourd fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration.
  • n. Head.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • n. A dipper or other vessel made from the shell of a gourd; hence, a drinking vessel; a bottle.
  • n. A false die. See gord.
  • n. A silver dollar; -- so called in Cuba, Haiti, etc.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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.
  • n. A dried and excavated gourd-shell prepared for use as a bottle or dipper, or in other ways.
  • n. 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.
  • n. 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.
  • n. Same as calabazilla.
  • n. The bigroot of Oregon, Micrampelis Oregona.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
  • n. any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds
  • n. any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds
  • Equivalent
    gourde   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bottle   
    Variant
    gord   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bottle    cucurbit    calabash    pumpkin    squash    cusha    crookneck    Hubbard    luffa    melon   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Ford    Lord    Verwoerd    Ward    abhorred    aboard    accord    adored    afford    award   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    pumpkin    watermelon    melon    cucumber    squash    cocoanut    tomato    bamboo