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gourd

[gawrd, gohrd, goord] / gɔrd, goʊrd, gʊərd /


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

From BBC • Feb. 20, 2026

Plants in the gourd family, including pumpkins, melons, cucumbers, and zucchini, are known for accumulating high levels of pollutants in their fruit.

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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2024

There was a leather bucket hanging from a nail so I went and brung it and the drinking gourd that was next to it over to where the woman with the baby was squatted down.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis




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