gourd
4
7.2
- noun
- /ɡʊrd/
:
botijo
- You're the genius who thought up drinking water from a gourd.
- gourd container
- gourd rattle
- made from a gourd
Examples
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At dawn, she opened the lid of a small gourd, which she had concealed inside her clothes.
Fiction book (1991) -
And when the rain eventually stopped, the gourd would probably be empty.
Fiction book (1998) -
When he could drink no more, the gourd was still full.
Fiction book (1998) -
When the water started steaming, she poured it into the small gourd basin.
Fiction book (1997) -
With hearty goodwill, he drained the gourd and wiped his hand across his mouth.
Fiction book (1991) -
The prisoner drank hesitantly at first, then grabbed the gourd and gulped the liquid down.
Fiction book (1995) -
Ipa's father took a long draw from a gourd filled with sotol and finished his flatbread made from ground maize.
Fiction book (1995) -
When attending to someone sick, he wrote, the shaman shook a chichicoya, or gourd with a small glass bead inside.
Academic text (2001) -
He filled the gourd with fresh water before heading back to camp.
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The artisan crafted a beautiful gourd for holding traditional beverages during the ceremony.
Synonyms
1
9.5
A hard dry gourd shell used as a bowl or musical instrument
A climbing plant with hard, bottle-shaped fruit used as food or dried to make containers
Compounds
A climbing plant with hard, bottle-shaped fruit used as food or dried to make containers
A climbing plant with large yellow flowers and edible young fruits that dry into natural sponges
A vine from central and southwestern United States and Mexico that makes small hard spotted green fruit you cannot eat
- Specialized
A group of plants like cucumbers, melons, and pumpkins that grow as vines
- Indian
A tropical climbing plant with big yellow flowers, edible young fruits, and a dry inside used as a sponge
A vine that grows in dry fields and makes small hard green fruits that are not edible
A long-lived vine from dry central and southwestern US and Mexico that has small hard green-and-white fruits not for eating
A small hard green-and-white fruit from a wild North American vine not for eating
A climbing plant whose young fruits are edible and whose dried mature fruit makes a natural sponge
How Useful
Surface Forms
Etymology
Gourd also means a bottle or container made from the dried shell of a 'bottle gourd'; people hollowed and dried the fruit to carry water, so the word came to mean the container itself.