calabash
n.
gourd
Calabash
This article is about one of the plant species by this name. For other uses, see
Calabash (disambiguation). The calabash (not to be confused with the
calabaza) is a
vine grown for its fruit, which can either be harvested young and used as a
vegetable or harvested mature, dried, and used as a bottle, utensil, or pipe. For this reason, one of the calabash subspecies is known as the bottle gourd. The fresh fruit has a light green smooth skin and a white flesh.
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calabash
Noun
1. round gourd of the calabash tree
(hypernym) gourd
2. tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
(synonym) calabash tree, Crescentia cujete
(hypernym) tree
(member-holonym) Crescentia, genus Crescentia
3. Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits
(synonym) bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria
(hypernym) gourd, gourd vine
(member-holonym) Lagenaria, genus Lagenaria
4. bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
(synonym) gourd
(hypernym) bottle
5. a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd
(synonym) calabash pipe
(hypernym) pipe, tobacco pipe
Calabash
(n.)
The fruit of the calabash tree.
(n.)
The common gourd (plant or fruit).
(n.)
A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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Calabash
dried hollow shell of a gourd, used as a rattle.