1911 E. M. Clowes ii. 30 The odd impression that all the lodging-houses had sprung up, gourd~like, to their present proportions the very night after the lease had been signed.
1927 H. Peake & H. J. Fleure 149 The gourd-like form of the earliest Moravian wares seems to indicate an eastern origin.
1952 A. G. L. Hellyer (ed. 22) 288 Luffa,..stove climbing annual, bearing curious gourd-like fruits.