Resembling or having the characteristics of a gourd in shape, texture, or appearance.
From gourd (from Old French 'gourde', from Latin 'cucurbita') combined with Old English 'like', meaning 'similar to.' The compound emerged in English to describe things that share visual or structural similarities with gourds.
People have been growing gourds for over 10,000 years, and their unusual bumpy shapes were so distinctive that English speakers created specific words to describe things that looked like them—showing how important these plants were in everyday life.
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