cal·a·bash /ˈkæləˌbæʃ/
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Cal·a·bash n.
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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calabash
n 1: round gourd of the calabash tree
2: tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
[syn: calabash tree, Crescentia cujete]
3: Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped
gourds as fruits [syn: bottle gourd, Lagenaria
siceraria]
4: bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd [syn: gourd]
5: a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made
from a calabash gourd [syn: calabash pipe]