gourd

It’s turtlenecks and quality sweaters, buying decorative gourds for an evening dinner party and coupling up for cuffing season, if not longer term.

A beaver’s tail creates a rhythm on the deck and an opossum has a bass fashioned out of a gourd.

She was greener than a gourd, but she only swallowed hard.

The bottle gourd, known scientifically as Lagenaria siceraria, is a plant deeply intertwined with human civilization.

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.