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noun

gourd

GORD/ɡʊrd/

A hard-shelled fruit often dried for decoration or containers.

An intact gourd stands beside a container made from a dried one.

An intact bottle gourd beside a dried gourd made into an open container, showing the recognizable fruit shape and its rigid, hollow shell.
Etymology
cucurbitaLatingourd

The word already named a gourd, the hard-shelled fruit later used for containers or decoration.

More examples

  • The dried gourd rattles with seeds.
  • He carves a small opening in the gourd.

Forms

gourd

Similar words

calabash
A particular gourd or vessel made from its shell.
fruit
The broader botanical category rather than a hard-shelled example.