About The Word Calabash
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Calabash
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What's The Definition Of Calabash?
[n] a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd
[n] bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd [n] Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits [n] tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds [n] round gourd of the calabash tree Synonyms | Synonyms for Calabash: bottle gourd | calabash pipe | calabash tree | Crescentia cujete | gourd | Lagenaria siceraria Related Terms | Find terms related to Calabash: See Also | bottle | Crescentia | genus Crescentia | genus Lagenaria | gourd | gourd vine | Lagenaria | pipe | tobacco pipe | tree Calabash In Webster's Dictionary \Cal"a*bash\ (k[a^]l"[.a]*b[a^]sh), n. [Sp. calabaza,
or Pg. calaba[,c]a, caba[,c]a (cf. F. Calebasse), lit., a dry
gourd, fr. Ar. qar', fem., a kind of gourd + aibas dry.]
1. The common gourd (plant or fruit).
2. The fruit of the calabash tree.
3. A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made
from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.
{Calabash tree}. (Bot.), a tree of tropical America
({Crescentia cujete}), producing a large gourdlike fruit,
containing a purgative pulp. Its hard shell, after the
removal of the pulp, is used for cups, bottles, etc. The
{African calabash tree} is the baobab.
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