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gourd

/gawrd, gohrd, goord/US // gɔrd, goʊrd, gʊərd //UK // (ɡʊəd) //

葫芦,瓜子,瓠子,瓠瓜

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the hard-shelled fruit of any of various plants, especially those of Lagenaria siceraria, whose dried shell is used for bowls and other utensils, and Cucurbita pepo, used ornamentally.Compare gourd family.
    • : a plant bearing such a fruit.
    • : a dried and excavated gourd shell used as a bottle, dipper, flask, etc.
    • : a gourd-shaped, small-necked bottle or flask.

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Examples

  • Holding the first pumpkin by its stem, slowly and steadily submerge the entire gourd into the tub.

  • In a recent interview, Sona Jobarteh, a musician and composer from Gamba in West Africa, a virtuoso on the Kora, a multi-stringed lute with a gourd body, explained her music did not mean the same to all listeners.

  • I will cook, and I’m setting up a fall table with leaf and gourd decorations and a sweet pecan pie candle.

  • Teammates would get calls from Ellis out of his gourd at 3:30 a.m. on nights before games.

  • Instead, Violet is kidnapped and solid to a rival courtesan house, where she is trained by an older courtesan named Magic Gourd.

  • The woman who was the spokesperson held out a calabash, a hollowed out gourd traditionally used to hold the cutters' instruments.

  • One is simply composed of a crooked stick, a small hollow gourd, and a single string of brass wire.

  • See Fig. 85, a copy of a broken sepulchral slab, in which the prophets booth is reduced to a single branch of a gourd.

  • With that he took a big gourd from the corner and painted a face on it with a piece of charcoal found in the fireplace.

  • Through the opening he slowly pushed the gourd, topped by the hat and having long hair hanging down the sides.

  • I have a clear picture of the warrior holding the 247 end of the cord calling for some one to bring a gourd of water.