calabash

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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
A utensil traditionally made of the dried shell of a calabash and used as a bottle, dipper, utensil or pipe, etc
That fruit
{n} a tree, a vessel made of the fruit of the tree, or of a gourd shell
Tree (Crescentia cujete) of the trumpet-creeper family (Bignoniaceae) that grows in Central and South America, the West Indies, and extreme southern Florida. It is often grown as an ornamental. It produces large spherical fruits, the hard shells of which are useful as bowls, cups, and other water containers when hollowed out. The fruit's shell encloses a whitish pulp and thin, dark brown seeds. The tree bears funnel-shaped, light green and purple-streaked flowers and evergreen leaves. Fruits of the unrelated bottle gourd (Lagenaria siceraria) are also known as calabashes
Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits
The common gourd (plant or fruit)
A drinking cup or waterholder; so called from the calabash nut of which it is made
A utensil made of the dried shell of a calabash and used as a bottle, dipper, etc
{i} gourd
a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds round gourd of the calabash tree
round gourd of the calabash tree
bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd
A South African gourd similar to a squash grown specifically for use in pipes The shape is determined as the gourd grows by placing small blocks under the stem, forcing it into a gentle curve The mature gourd is cut and dried, then fitted with a cork gasket to receive a meerschaum bowl The finished pipe offers one of the coolest, driest smokes available Immortalized by Sherlock Holmes and in Jimmy Durante's signature line - "Good night Mrs Calabash - wherever you are "
A hollowed out, dried out half gourd used as a bowl
A common variety of hard-shelled gourd, also called "bottle gourd" and "white-flowered gourd " This gourd is used in the West Indies to produce a very popular syrup Its shell is often used to create bowls and other utensils
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, like a gourd
tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd
Bottle gourd, from the stem of which a very handsome pipe is made, and fitted with a meerschaum cup
A hard tree fruit of the bignonia (tropical vine) family and used by Maroon carvers in Suriname and French Guiana to make bowls and other utensils as gifts or to be used at home and in rituals In the Maroon communities in Suriname and French Guiana, carving calabashes is a popular craft among women
The fruit of the calabash tree
Name of the common bottle gourd The word is also used to refer to utensils (dippers, bowls, bottles) or musical instruments made from the gourd
sweet calabash
apple-sized passion fruit of the West Indies West Indian passionflower with edible apple-sized fruit
calabash

    Hyphenation

    cal·a·bash

    Synonyms

    gourd

    Pronunciation

    Etymology

    [ 'ka-l&-"bash ] (noun.) 1596. From Spanish calabaza (“pumpkin, gourd”), possibly from Arabic قرعة يابسة (qárʕa yābisa, “dry gourd”) or directly from Persian خربزه (kharbozeh, “melon”), or from a pre-Roman Iberian word *calapaccia; cognate with French calebasse (“gourd”)
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