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gourd  (gôrd, grd, grd)

n.

1. Any of several trailing or climbing plants related to the pumpkin, squash, and cucumber and bearing fruits with a hard rind.

2.

a. The fruit of such a plant, often of irregular and unusual shape.

b. The dried and hollowed-out shell of one of these fruits, often used as a drinking utensil.

Idiom:

off/out of (one's) gourd Slang

Very foolish; crazy.

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[Middle English gourde, from Anglo-Norman, ultimately from Latin cucurbita.]

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gourd [goord]

Noun

1. a large hard-shelled fruit similar to a cucumber or marrow

2. a container made from a dried gourd shell [Old French gourde]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	gourd - bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd calabash bottle - a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped
	2.	gourd - any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds calabash - round gourd of the calabash tree fruit - the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant
	3.	gourd - any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds gourd vine Cucurbitaceae, family Cucurbitaceae, gourd family - a family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin) buffalo gourd, calabazilla, Cucurbita foetidissima, Missouri gourd, prairie gourd vine, wild pumpkin, prairie gourd - perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit melon vine, melon - any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers Ecballium elaterium, exploding cucumber, squirting cucumber, touch-me-not - Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria, calabash - Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits balsam apple, Momordica balsamina - a tropical Old World flowering vine with red or orange warty fruit balsam pear, Momordica charantia - tropical Old World vine with yellow-orange fruit vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface

Translations

gourd [guəd] n → calabaza

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gourd [guəd] n → calebasse f, gourde f

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gourd [guəd] n (container) → Kürbisflasche f

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gourd [guəd] n → zucca

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gourd

n gourd [guəd, (American ) go:rd]

a type of large fruit, or the plant on which it grows. komkommer, karkoer يَقْطين، قَرع кратуна tykev græskar der Flaschenkürbis (νερο)κολοκύθα calabaza pudelkõrvits هر گیاهی از تیره کدو kurpitsa gourde דְלַעַת कद्दू के वर्ग की सब्जी sušena tikva (dísz)tök labu grasker (frutto delle cucurbitacee) ひょうたん 호리병박 moliūgas (pudeļveida) ķirbis labu pompoen gresskar dynia cabaça tigvă тыква бутылочная tekvica buča tikva pumpa บวบ su kabağı 葫蘆 гарбуз پیٹھا، گھیا، لوکی quả bầu; quả bí 葫芦