Refers to the plant Lagenaria siceraria, commonly grown for its fruit.
I'm growing bottle gourds in my garden.
gourd container; calabash
A container made from a dried gourd, traditionally used for carrying liquids.
Travelers in the old days carried water in a gourd.
green calabash; unripe gourd · scrawny, pale person; sallow-faced person
bottle gourd · ensign with a cluster of gourds (Toyotomi Hideyoshi)
Usually written in kana; the kanji forms 瓢箪 and 瓢簞 are rare and mainly decorative or historical.
Variant kanji form; included for search coverage only.
Katakana spelling, often used in botanical or scientific contexts.
Traditional kanji spelling, occasionally seen in literature or product names.
The word is of native Japanese origin. The kanji 瓢箪 are Chinese loan characters used for their meaning, but the exact historical derivation of the Japanese reading is uncertain.