gourd
Example Sentences
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The gourd was used as a buoyancy aid and a place to put the catch.
From BBC
Meanwhile, Black Americans enslaved on plantations were using homemade instruments such as stringed gourds to produce music with complex rhythms influenced by African traditions, which would later develop into blues and jazz.
One of the sphinxes brought, in her mouth, a large stone bowl, and in it a heaping of purple, pear-shaped gourds; Gelifen made straight for them.
From Literature
Monk fruit is a perennial vine native to China and a member of the gourd family.
From Science Daily
To help figure out which seeds to use, he built a database that now traces the family trees of thousands of gargantuan gourds back generations.
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