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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

gourd [guəd] n → calebasse f, gourde f

gourd [guəd] n (container) → Kürbisflasche f

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, karkoerيَقْطين، قَرعкратунаtykevgræskarder Flaschenkürbis(νερο)κολοκύθαcalabazapudelkõrvitsهر گیاهی از تیره کدوkurpitsagourdeדְלַעַתकद्दू के वर्ग की सब्जीsušena tikva(dísz)töklabugrasker(frutto delle cucurbitacee)ひょうたん호리병박moliūgas(pudeļveida) ķirbislabupompoengresskardyniacabaçatigvăтыква бутылочнаяtekvicabučatikvapumpaบวบsu kabağı葫蘆гарбузپیٹھا، گھیا، لوکیquả bầu; quả bí葫芦