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This article refers to the plant family and its dried fruit shell. For the music group of a similar name, see The Gourds. For details on gourd species, please refer to List of gourds and squashes.

Gourds grown in a suburban garden

A calabash gourd, used for drinking yerba maté

A gourd is a plant of the family Cucurbitaceae. Gourd is occasionally used to describe crops like cucumbers, squash, luffas, and melons.^[1] The term gourd, however, can more specifically refer to the plants of the two Cucurbitaceae genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita^{[citation needed]}, or also to their hollow, dried-out shell.^[2] The hard-rinded fruits can have carving done to create scenes raised in relief.^[3] Painting^[4] and wood burning^[5] are also used to decorate the shells.

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^ "Cucurbitaceae". http://www.cucurbit.org/family.html. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
^ Marshall, Carmen, Lopez. "Gourds". http://www.peterspumpkins.com/detail/gourds.htm. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
^ Gibson, Bonnie. "Power carving tips". http://www.arizonagourds.com/CarvingInlay.html. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
^ "Painting gourds for bird houses". http://www.amishgourds.com/site/1278922/page/456699. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
^ "Wood burning your gourds". http://fromthewindow.com/gourdart/gourdpyrography.html. Retrieved 24 October 2011.

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Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gourd". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
Erickson DL, Smith BD, Clarke AC, Sandweiss DH, Tuross N (December 2005). "An Asian origin for a 10,000-year-old domesticated plant in the Americas". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (51): 18315–18320. doi:10.1073/pnas.0509279102. PMC 1311910. PMID 16352716. http://www.pnas.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=16352716.
Smith, Bruce D. (May 1997). "The Initial Domestication of Cucurbita pepo in the Americas 10,000 Years Ago". Science 276 (5314): 932. doi:10.1126/science.276.5314.932. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/276/5314/932.

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