Other forms: gourds
A gourd is a hard-skinned fruit dried and used as a vessel. A dried gourd, a gourd bowl, a water gourd.
The bottle gourd was among the first plants humans carried around the world, before agriculture proper, because it makes a container without any manufacture at all. Once dried the shell is hard and light, and it has held water, seed and music.
1noungourdA hard-skinned fruit dried and used as a vessel.
“The farmer drank water from a dried gourd that hung from his belt.”
gourd is a fruit.
Old French gourde comes from Latin cucurbita, a gourd.
Latin
cucurbita
Anglo-Norman
gurde
Middle English
gourde
English, today
gourd
From Middle English gourde, from Anglo-Norman gurde, gourde, from Latin cucurbita. a doublet of cucurbit.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA