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MAPP Mothers Against Pumpkin Picking, an organization dedicated to upholding the rights of the gourd-like squash, has coordinated a nationwide boycott of pumpkin picking.
Pablo Andreu: Seasonal Genocide Overlooked Pablo Andreu 2011
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She had another small gourd-like gut-stringed instrument about as long as a uke and a third as wide.
Sunday and the Sun Did Shine Steve Perry 2010
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She had another small gourd-like gut-stringed instrument about as long as a uke and a third as wide.
Archive 2010-04-01 Steve Perry 2010
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Attached to this strip were small gourd-like sacks or bags.
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We could seed Mars, for instance, and return to find it pocked with gourd-like homes held together by a fledgling infrastructure of engineered vines.
Archive 2006-06-01 Mac 2006
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It has a very interesting appearance with a gourd-like protruding apex.
Archive 2005-03-01 2005
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No cars, no autoplanes ... just a rustling mass of aliens, chuttering endlessly in their harsh sibilant language, scraping their hard spiny limbs and bodies against each other and the rounded, gourd-like walls.
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From the ceiling, and all around the doorway, hang wreaths and necklaces of sausages, or groups of the long gourd-like _cacio di cavallo_, twined about with box, or netted wire baskets filled with Easter eggs, or great bunches of white candles gathered together at the wicks.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various
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Here we have plainly indicated the little gourd-like, hard-shelled, and variegated squashes that are often cultivated as ornamental plants.
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America, whose gourd-like fruit is so hard that vessels made of it can be used over a fire many times before being burned.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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