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bottle gourd

 
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–noun
See under gourd (def. 1).
Origin:
1860–65
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gourd

  [gawrd, gohrd, goord]
–noun
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 (yellow-flowered gourd), used ornamentally. Compare gourd family.
2. a plant bearing such a fruit.
3. a dried and excavated gourd shell used as a bottle, dipper, flask, etc.
4. a gourd-shaped, small-necked bottle or flask.
—Idiom
5. out of or off one's gourd, Slang. out of one's mind; crazy.
Origin:
1275–1325; ME gourd(e), courde < AF (OF cöorde) < L cucurbita

Related forms:
gourdlike, adjective
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bottle gourd  
n.  See calabash.
cal·a·bash   (kāl'ə-bāsh')   
n.  

  1. An annual vine (Lagenaria siceraria) having white flowers and smooth, large, hard-shelled gourds. Also called bottle gourd, white-flowered gourd.

  2. A tropical American tree (Crescentia cujete) bearing hard-shelled, gourdlike fruits on the trunk and main branches. Also called calabash tree.

  3. Any of certain similar or related plants.

  4. The fruit of any of these plants.

  5. A utensil or container made from the dried, hollowed-out shell of any of these fruits.

  6. A smoking pipe with a curved stem and a large bowl made from the shell of a gourd.


[French calebasse, gourd, from Spanish calabaza, from Catalan carabaça, perhaps from Arabic qar'a yābisa, dried gourd : qar'a, gourd + yābisa, feminine of yābis, dried, participle of yabisa, to become dry; see ybš in Semitic roots.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
gourd [gord]

  1. n.
    the head. : I raised up and got a nasty blow on the gourd.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

gourd 
1303, from Anglo-Fr. gourde, from O.Fr. coorde, ultimately from L. cucurbita, of uncertain origin, perhaps related to cucumis "cucumber."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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bottle gourd

running or climbing vine, of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae), native to the Old World tropics but cultivated in warm climates for centuries for its ornamental and useful hard-shelled fruits

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