güiro — meaning in English
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English meaning
- gourd noun A hard-shelled fruit from a climbing or trailing vine in the pumpkin and squash family.
Senses
güiro is used for these senses in English:
- gourd Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae).
- guiro (musical instrument) A musical instrument, a shaker, made of a hollow gourd with parallel notches cut in one side, and played by rubbing a stick or scraper ("pua") along the notches to produce a ratchet-like sound.
gourd — full definition
- noun A hard-shelled fruit from a climbing or trailing vine in the pumpkin and squash family.
- noun The dried, hollowed shell of such a fruit, used as a bowl, container, or drinking vessel.