A large plant that grows on vines and produces hard-shelled fruit with seeds inside, often dried and used as containers or decoration.
From Old French 'gourd' and ultimately from Latin 'cucurbita.' The word traveled through many languages as trade brought these useful plants around the world.
Gourds were so important to ancient cultures that they became more than food—bottle gourds were hollowed out and used as water containers for thousands of years, and some even floated across oceans to populate new continents!
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