bottle gourd

British  

noun

1. an Old World cucurbitaceous climbing plant, Lagenaria siceraria , having large hard-shelled gourds as fruits

2. the fruit of this plant

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Example Sentences

The research team generated a comprehensive map of bottle gourd's genome variation, analyzing the genomes of 197 varieties from around the world.

From Science Daily

Last year South African researchers published an article in the journal Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems about the latent potential in bottle gourds.

From Salon

In quiet moments, he sits in the shade of the tree nursery, cutting up bottle gourd for the hens to peck.

From The Guardian

One of the earliest cultivated plants in many parts of the Americas was grown for nonfood purposes: the bottle gourd, used as a container.

From Literature

The other was a tunnel of dangling bottle gourds in the garden of the American gardener and writer Amy Goldman Fowler.

From Washington Post