Calabash

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A tropical American tree (Crescentia cujete) bearing hard-shelled, gourdlike fruits on the trunk and main branches.
  • noun. The fruit of either of these or related plants.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A utensil, container, or musical instrument made from the dried, hollowed-out shell of these fruits.
  • noun. A smoking pipe with a curved stem and a large bowl made from the shell of a gourd.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The head, with an implication of emptiness.
  • noun. A fruit of the tree Crescentia Cujete hollowed out, dried, and used as a vessel to contain liquids.
  • noun. A gourd of any kind used in the same way.
  • noun. A popular name of the gourd-plant, Lagenaria vulgaris.
  • noun. A name given to the red cap or tarboosh of Tunis.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The common gourd (plant or fruit).
  • noun. The fruit of the calabash tree.
  • noun. A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.
  • noun. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. 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 container, like a gourd.
  • noun. That fruit
  • noun. A utensil traditionally made of the dried shell of a calabash and used as a bottle, dipper, utensil or pipe, etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. round gourd of the calabash tree
  • noun. bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
  • noun. tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
  • noun. Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits
  • noun. a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd
  • Word Usage
    "“We are impounding their bikes and want to take them to court so they can explain why they think wearing a calabash is good enough for their safety,” he said."
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