Definitions for: 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



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: bottle gourd, calabash pipe, calabash tree, Crescentia cujete, gourd, Lagenaria siceraria

See Also: bottle, Crescentia, genus Crescentia, genus Lagenaria, gourd, gourd vine, Lagenaria, pipe, tobacco pipe, tree

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