gourd plant

Mira otros diccionarios:

• Gourd — This article refers to the dried fruit shell. For the alternative country musical group of a similar name, see The Gourds.A gourd is a plant of the family Cucurbitaceae, or a name given to the hollow, dried shell of a fruit in the Cucurbitaceae… …   Wikipedia

• gourd —   Ipu (term used for both the gourd plant and the hula drum made of two gourds sewed together, played by chanters; various types, ipu and below); hue (various types, hue and below); pōhue, umeke pōhue. Other kinds: hue awa awa (bitter); hulilau… …   English-Hawaiian dictionary

• GOURD — (Heb. דְּלַעַת; pl. דְּלוּעִים), a plant. It occurs in the Bible only in the form of a place name Dilan, a town in the inheritance of Judah (Josh. 15:38), but it is frequently mentioned in talmudic literature. In modern Hebrew the word is applied …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• gourd´like´ — gourd «grd, gohrd, gurd», noun. 1. the fruit of certain vines, with hard rinds and many flat seeds. It belongs to the gourd family. One kind, the bottle gourd, is dried and hollowed out and used for cups, bowls, bottles, and other utensils. 2.… …   Useful english dictionary

• gourd — [gôrd, goord] adj. [ME gourde < OFr gouorde < L cucurbita] designating a family (Cucurbitaceae, order Violales) of dicotyledonous plants, including the squash, melon, cucumber, and pumpkin n. 1. any trailing or climbing plant belonging to… …   English World dictionary

• gourd — ► NOUN 1) the large hard skinned fleshy fruit of a climbing or trailing plant. 2) a container made from the hollowed and dried skin of a gourd. ORIGIN Old French gourde, from Latin cucurbita …   English terms dictionary

• gourd family — gourd′ fam ily n. pln a plant family, Cucurbitaceae, of nonwoody vines with tendrils, having palmately lobed leaves, large yellow to greenish flowers, and many seeded fleshy fruits with a hard rind …   From formal English to slang

• gourd — gourdlike, adj. /gawrd, gohrd, goord/, n. 1. the hard shelled fruit of any of various plants, esp. those of Lagenaria siceraria (white flowered gourd or bottle gourd), whose dried shell is used for bowls and other utensils, and Cucurbita pepo… …   Universalium

• gourd — [[t]gɔrd, goʊrd, gʊərd[/t]] n. 1) pln the hard shelled fruit of any plant belonging to the gourd family, esp. of the genus Cucurbita, made into bowls, ladles, etc 2) pln a plant bearing such a fruit 3) a dried and excavated gourd shell used as a… …   From formal English to slang

• gourd — [[t]gʊ͟ə(r)d, gɔ͟ː(r)d[/t]] gourds 1) N COUNT A gourd is a large round fruit with a hard skin. You can also use gourd to refer to the plant on which this fruit grows. 2) N COUNT A gourd is a container made from the hard dry skin of a gourd fruit …   English dictionary

• gourd — /gʊəd / (say goouhd), /gɔd / (say gawd) noun 1. the fruit of any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae, especially that of Lagenaria siceraria (bottle gourd), whose dried shell is used for bottles, bowls, etc., or that of certain forms of …