GOURD
What does "GOURD" mean?
A hard-shelled fruit of the squash family, often dried and used as a container or ornament.
Meanings
- A fleshy, hard-skinned fruit of a trailing or climbing plant in the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae). They scooped out the gourd to make a water dipper.
- A person's head (in the slang phrase 'out of one's gourd', meaning crazy). Bungee jumping? He's completely out of his gourd. informal
Did you know?
- The bottle gourd is among the earliest plants humans ever domesticated - valued not as food but as a ready-made canteen, bowl, and float, used worldwide for over 10,000 years.
Word origin
From Old French 'gourde', a contraction of Latin 'cucurbita', meaning gourd or pumpkin - the same Latin root that names the entire Cucurbitaceae family.
Remember it
GOURD sounds like 'gored' but hides a 'U' - the hollow you scoop out to make a cup.
A little poem
Dried on the warm sill-
what held the vine's wet sweetness
now holds the cool well.
haiku
Wordplay
- Why did the gardener trust the gourd with his secrets? Because it kept everything bottled up.
What it teaches
Sometimes the most useful thing a body offers is the empty space it learns to hold.
Quick facts
What does GOURD mean?
A hard-shelled fruit of the squash family, often dried and used as a container or ornament.
Is GOURD a valid word?
Yes — GOURD is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is GOURD?
GOURD has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does GOURD come from?
From Old French 'gourde', a contraction of Latin 'cucurbita', meaning gourd or pumpkin - the same Latin root that names the entire Cucurbitaceae family.
What can GOURD teach us?
Sometimes the most useful thing a body offers is the empty space it learns to hold.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.