The word "gourd" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word "gourd" to refer to a type of hard-rinded edible fruit or plant - typically shaped like a bottle - that is native to tropical and subtropical regions. For example, "This year I grew cucumbers, squash, and gourds in my garden."
Otherwise go for the exquisite pickled tea-leaf salad and ridge gourd tempura accompanied by a lip-smacking tamarind margarita.
He carefully portions out green leaves from his own pouch into his personal silver vessel – a modern version of the South American mate gourd – then decants the water into a silver Thermos, adding the leaves to brew.
As is a Stetson, a gourd, a skull.How does your teaching influence your work Teaching regularly has made me an even more adept reader, I think.
But the hapless pasha was decapitated, his severed head being duly placed in a gourd full of honey and exposed at the Topkapi palace in Istanbul, after he was implicated in a plot to overthrow the sultan.Will he join the party?Mr Dervis escaped that fate at the hands of Mr Ecevit.
Tribesmen donned their traditional battledress of warpaint, penis gourd and nothing else and fought Indonesia's troops with bows and arrows for hours.
When he failed, he was executed in public and his head preserved in a gourd of honey.
She gave him a gourd for drinking maté, a traditional herb tea, and gushed on receiving a papal kiss in return.
Even the best pieces sometimes fail to excite a saleroom.A double-gourd vase with an imperial seal mark from the Qianlong period was one of the star lots of Sotheby's sale in Hong Kong on October 7th.
Windows are of many shapes round, square, bell-shaped, jar-shaped, gourd-shaped, diamond-shaped, fan-shaped, and purely asymmetric and make centres of interest in a blank wall.
If any money came his way, and it seldom did, he immediately bought gourds of palm-wine, called round his neighbours and made merry.
It's one of the novel's funniest scenes: the men gibber through a jungle – lost in space and out of their Edwardian gourds.
