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gourdlike

  • a word derived from gourd.
    gourd
    noun
    the hard-shelled fruit of any of various plants, especially those of Lagenaria siceraria white-flowered gourd, or bottle gourd, whose dried shell is used for bowls and other utensils, and Cucurbita pepo yellow-flowered gourd, used ornamentally.

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Abdulmalik pointed at the ripe gourdlike pods on the kuka tree and said, “You come my house. My wife cook very sweet kuka soup.”

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Jicaro—bears gourdlike fruit; plentiful on llanos, used in making saddle-trees.

From Guatemala, the country of the future by Charles M. Pepper