The carved lids can be made of jade, coconut shell, sandalwood and ivory; the most common motif employs an ornament of gourd vines, flowers, and fruits.

Because gourd vines tend to spread all over the place, many gardeners tie the vines to trellises.

"I mean, a gourd can't eat a man--" "But the gourd vine might," Trent pointed out.

The eastern end of it changed like the tip of a wild gourd vine as the towns moved up and down the river or the Queres crossed from Katzimo to the rock of Acoma; but always Zuñi was the root, and the end of the first day's journey was the Rock.

With the mansions were compounds, whose cabins could hardly have more than three rooms plus loft, but even they had fruit trees, and small gardens where bean and pea vines climbed frames, while gourd vines climbed the walls.

Once the land had been prepared for rice cultivation, the buffalo died and a gourd vine grew from his nostril.

A late addition to the medieval catalog of Aesop's Fables of putative Persian origins The Gourd and the Palm-tree uses the emblematic trope of a fast-growing gourd vine sprouted from seed that outgrows an older mature tree yet perishes in the frost to instruct on the folly of intemperance.

Alex pointed to the severed gourd vine, which he had cast aside.