gourd

n. fleshy fruit; trailing or climbing plant which bears this fruit; vessel or utensil made from a dried gourd shell

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 hollow, dried shell of a fruit in the Cucurbitaceae family of plants of the genus Lagenaria. Gourds can be used as a number of things, including bowls or bottles. Gourds are also used as resonating chambers on certain musical instruments including the berimbau and many other stringed instruments and drums. Instruments of this type are fairly common to the Caribbean. Gourds are also used as a tool for sipping yerba mate by means of a bombilla, in Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil, where it is called "cuia" (kOOya). Birdhouse gourds, (Lagenaria siceraria), are commonly used in southern USA for group housing for purple martins, which reputedly help control mosquitoes. "Gourd" can also refer to the live fruit before it is dried, or to the entire plant that produces that fruit.
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Noun
1. bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
(synonym) calabash
(hypernym) bottle
2. any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds
(hypernym) fruit
(hyponym) calabash
3. any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds
(synonym) gourd vine
(hypernym) vine
(hyponym) prairie gourd, prairie gourd vine, Missouri gourd, wild pumpkin, buffalo gourd, calabazilla, Cucurbita foetidissima
(member-holonym) Cucurbitaceae, family Cucurbitaceae, gourd family

adj. numb, stiff

(n.)
Alt. of Gourde
  

(n.)
A fleshy, three-celled, many-seeded fruit, as the melon, pumpkin, cucumber, etc., of the order Cucurbitaceae; and especially the bottle gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris) which occurs in a great variety of forms, and, when the interior part is removed, serves for bottles, dippers, cups, and other dishes.
  

(n.)
A false die. See Gord.
  

(n.)
A dipper or other vessel made from the shell of a gourd; hence, a drinking vessel; a bottle.