gourd

Example Sentences

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The gourd was used as a buoyancy aid and a place to put the catch.

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

Pumpkins, squash, zucchini, and other members of the gourd family have a surprising trait: they can take up pollutants from the soil and store them in their edible parts.

From Science Daily • Oct. 30, 2025

While she prefers traditional orange, Torres isn’t afraid of a more ghostly gourd.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025

Still used today by West Africans, the instrument's main parts are a gourd, and a stick attachment and a bridge for its three to four strings, paralleling a modern banjo.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2024

Such reuse of old materials is not unknown, though nobody has ever seen it with a gourd three thousand years old.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann