Gourd Terminology

Gourds include the fruits of some flowering plant species in the family Cucurbitaceae, particularly Cucurbita and Lagenaria. The term refers to a number...

The Gourd Dance is a Kiowa dance and song tradition that has become popular at modern powwows in southwestern Oklahoma. Many Native Americans dispute...

measurements of the musician, it has a hollow body and two large resonating gourds, one under each end. It has four main strings which are melodic, and three...

to develop. In 2020, world production of pumpkins (including squash and gourds) was 28 million tonnes, with China accounting for 27% of the total. Ukraine...

"hesperidium". A specialized term, pepo, is also used for fruits of the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae, which are modified to have a hard outer rind, but...

scraper, common in vallenato guache – Rattles made from filling metal or gourd tubes with seeds guateque – Originally a Cuban word referring to a rural...

mountains surrounding it, and is shown again in the credits. The Gourd of the Saints The Gourd of the Saints is a bottle that took 200 years for Mink's dragon...

musical instruments such as the guitar, the ʻukulele, and the double bass. Terminology for two additional categories is beginning to enter the hula lexicon:...

truncated pyramid-shaped roof, like the gopuras. The name comes from Khakharu (gourd) because of the shape of the roof. The temples of the feminine deities as...

cells in vitro at a concentration of 20 μM. Diets containing 0.01% bitter gourd seed oil (0.006% as α-eleostearic acid) were found to prevent azoxymethane-induced...

Confused Mind The Mind of the Existent Mind and the Mind of No-Mind Throw the Gourd into the Water Push It Down and It Will Spin Engender the Mind with No Place...

reported playing it. By 1680 accounts of Maya musicians using marimbas with gourd resonator were made in Guatemala. It became more widespread during the 18th...

pineapple. There are rare instances of overlap, e.g., the calabash (bottle-gourd), cotton, and yam are believed to have been domesticated separately in both...

percussion talking drum Ilimba drum membranophones 211.11 Zimbabwe percussion gourd drum Ingoma Shakwe Inyahura Igihumurizo membranophones 211.212 Rwanda percussion...

fruits, flowers Mesoamerica pumpkin, squash, marrow, zucchini (courgette), gourd 27.6 Allium cepa bulbs, leaves Asia onion, spring onion, scallion, shallot...

his land. The farmer's daughter challenges the kappa to submerge several gourds in water. When the kappa fails in its task, it retreats, saving the farmer's...

Asia. According to the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, "terminology presents a complicated situation. Nowadays the term tanbur (or tambur)...

systematic names List of Latinised names List of legal Latin terms Medical terminology Romanization (cultural) Toponymy Help:IPA/Latin "Allen and Greenough's...

tools and ceremonial items. For example, it was used on rattles to adhere gourds or turtle shells to rattle handles. It was also used in decorations. Small...

for connecting themselves to ladders in 1847, and this became the modern gourd-shaped design by 1868. German and Austrian mountaineers started using them...