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calabash (Lagenaria siceraria); bottle gourd

gourd (container); calabash

strips of dried gourd

green calabash; unripe gourd

scrawny, pale person; sallow-faced person

one gourd

small drink (esp. of alcohol); drink one carries

(person) slippery as an eel

Word usually written using kana alone

Lagenaria siceraria var. gourda (variety of bottle gourd); gourd (container) made from its fruit

ふくべ only

Lagenaria siceraria var. depressa (variety of bottle gourd)

Word usually written using kana alone

handsome fungus beetle (any beetle of family Endomychidae)

Colloquial

28-spotted ladybird (Epilachna vigintioctopunctata)

Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis); harlequin ladybird; Halloween beetle

Japanese mythology

nurarihyon; elusive ghost resembling an old man with an elongated head

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Hyonenzu (painting by Josetsu, 1415)

ladybug; ladybird; lady beetle

Asian lady beetle (Harmonia axyridis); harlequin ladybird

Idiomatic expression

something appearing from a place one wouldn't expect; something said as a joke actually happening; a horse from a gourd

Idiomatic expression

something impossible; something ridiculous

seven-spotted ladybug (Coccinella septempunctata); seven-spot ladybird

bottle gourd

ensign bearing a cluster of gourds (used by Toyotomi Hideyoshi)

Idiomatic expression

something appearing from a place you wouldn't expect; something said as a joke actually happening; a horse comes out from a gourd

Idiomatic expression

something impossible; something ridiculous

28-spotted ladybird (Epilachna vigintioctopunctata)

Idiomatic expression; From the Analects of Confucius

simple food and drink; being content with a frugal life; a bamboo dish of rice and a gourd of drink

Rare term; From the Analects of Confucius

simple food and drink; being content with a frugal life; a bamboo dish of rice and a gourd of drink

Archaic

gourd; calabash; bottle gourd

dried gourd, used as flask