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Meanings of bottle gourd in English
Spanish
lagenaria siceraria 
Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits.
Synonyms
Examples for "calabash"
Examples for "calabash"
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The man handed up a calabash with a little water in it.
2
This he carries in a calabash, and pours out on the water.
3
Now, strangely enough, I had no great interest in that calabash stew.
4
We hang a calabash, filled with oil and medicines, upon your arm.
5
The savage took water in a calabash and laid it on the floor.
Usage of bottle gourd in English
1
She raised her eyebrows holding a piece of bottle gourd in midair.
2
One of the earliest cultivated plants in many parts of the Americas was grown for nonfood purposes: the bottle gourd, used as a container.
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However, this scenario requires the propagation of tropical-adapted bottle gourds across the Arctic.
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In contrast to the earlier results, we find that all pre-Columbian bottle gourds are most closely related to African gourds, not Asian gourds.
5
My still worked beautifully, and produced four or five bottles of good spirit daily;-thisI stored in large bottle gourds, containing about four gallons each.
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Here, we isolate 86,000 base pairs of plastid DNA from a geographically broad sample of archaeological and living bottle gourds.