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bottle gourd

noun

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

  2. the fruit of this plant

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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

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They noted that bottle gourds could be an essential food security crop, but there has not been enough research into them.

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

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

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

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