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- adjective Resembling a
gourd .
Etymologies
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Examples
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As a counter to the solidity of the work in bronze, steel, even plywood, he also makes pieces like the painted white fiberglass "Companions," gourdlike extrusions spreading gracefully in all directions.
Beauty That's No Illusion Willard Spiegelman 2011
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He felt her warm gasp in his ear as the body of Dendra—the enormous, gourdlike thing at the heart of the vines—cracked open in four sections that peeled down like the petals of a flower.
End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011
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He felt her warm gasp in his ear as the body of Dendra—the enormous, gourdlike thing at the heart of the vines—cracked open in four sections that peeled down like the petals of a flower.
End of Time P. W. Catanese 2011
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Besides conventional instruments like guitars, violins and a deep-voiced mandolin, which looked like a bass fiddle, there was also a gourdlike rasp and castanets.
Mexico Michener, James 1992
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Two tentacles thrust up from the dull green mass, thickened, grew two side tentacles, and then gourdlike knobs at their ends.
Spock Must Die Blish, James 1970
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