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Bottle made from the dried shell of a fruit; Any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds; Any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds.

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  • The bald gourd is diced into chunks and used for this bhaaji.
  • The word gourd is a synecdochic use of a metaphor for the human head, which has cognates in a good many languages.
  • Since bitter gourd is such a healthy vegetable, Ms. Gloria was happy to find a way to make it that even children like.
  • Karla/Karela/Bitter gourd is everyone's most hated vegetable atleast as a child that you actually might grow up to like.
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  • The "gourd" (a kind of plant with dry, hollow, and often fancy fruits) was "gored" (pierced by an animal tusk) during the bull's raid of the garden.
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