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Noun: bottle gourd
  1. Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits
    "They dried bottle gourds to make water containers";
    - calabash, Lagenaria siceraria

Derived forms: bottle gourds

Type of: gourd, gourd vine

Part of: genus Lagenaria, Lagenaria

Encyclopedia: Bottle gourd