bottle gourd
noun
bottle gourds
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pluralof bottle gourd.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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They employed both hunter-gatherer strategies and the cultivation of domesticated plants like sunflowers and bottle gourds.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
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 ● Nov. 19, 2022
In the northern Indian state of Haryana, Satbir Singh Jatain last month relinquished his bottle gourds to the elements, allowing them to rot on the vine rather than wasting the effort to harvest them.
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2020
Collective farming also allows the women to diversify their crops and grow produce like eggplant, tapioca, okra, and bottle gourds to bolster their food security.
From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2019
The other was a tunnel of dangling bottle gourds in the garden of the American gardener and writer Amy Goldman Fowler.
From Washington Post ● May 16, 2017
