gourd
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gourd (gôrd, go̵ord)
adjective
Etymology: ME gourde < OFr gouorde < L cucurbita
noun
- any trailing or climbing plant belonging to the gourd family
- any of the ornamental, inedible fruits of these or related plants, esp. of a yellow-flowered variety (Cucurbita pepo ovifera) of the pumpkin
- ☆ the dried, hollowed-out shell of such a fruit, used as a drinking cup, dipper, etc.
- Slang the head: usually in the phrase out of one's gourd, crazy, foolish, etc.
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Preposition: of
- ash: They said the gourd of ashes will fall from the air.
Converse of object
- carry: In her right hand, she carries a gourd rattle.
Adjective modifier
- bitter: This cooling breeze, these strips of bitter gourd filled with fish paste, this ice-cold soy milk - they are real all right.
Modifies a noun
- family: Early Cucumber The cucumber is the fleshy fruit of the gourd family originally from northern India.
Noun used with modifier
- bottle: In early Peruvian civilisations, bottle gourds were even used in head surgery.
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