A Gourd is: Any of a family of chiefly herbaceous tendril (remember last week’s words) bearing vines including the cucumber, melon, squash, and pumpkin. Example: Max made a birdhouse out of a gourd which he’d hollowed out. Do you know what it means to ‘hollow out something?” Check back with Max next Wednesday and find… Read More…
Max’s Word Wednesday: Tendril
Max’s Word of the Day today is Tendril. A Tendril is: 1 : a slender leafless winding stem by which some climbing plants fasten themselves to a support 2 : something that curls like a tendril (a tendril of hair) Example: Max found a tendril of hair in his bowl of soup. “Yuck!” he said.