Gourd
[gʊəd;gɔːd] or [ɡʊrd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd.
(noun.) any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds.
(noun.) any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds.
欧内斯廷編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A fleshy, three-celled, many-seeded fruit, as the melon, pumpkin, cucumber, etc., of the order Cucurbitaceae; and especially the bottle gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris) which occurs in a great variety of forms, and, when the interior part is removed, serves for bottles, dippers, cups, and other dishes.
(n.) A dipper or other vessel made from the shell of a gourd; hence, a drinking vessel; a bottle.
(n.) A false die. See Gord.
(n.) Alt. of Gourde
手打:斯坦
解釋/意思:
n. a large fleshy fruit: rind of a gourd used as a drinking-cup: the gourd plant: (pl.) hollow dice used by cheating gamblers.—ns. Gourd′iness; Gourd′-worm a fluke or trematode worm esp. the liver-fluke.—adj. Gourd′y having the legs swollen—of a horse.
胡安編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- In half an hour he was back with fruit and a hollow gourd-like vegetable filled with water. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Tarzan had to lift him that he might drink from the gourd. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- In that morning my soul grew as fast as Jonah's gourd. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Many similar cases of analogous variation have been observed by Naudin in the great gourd family, and by various authors in our cereals. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
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