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[syn: calabash, calabash tree, Crescentia cujete]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gourd tree \Gourd" tree"\ (Bot.)
A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the
West Indies and Central America.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Calabash \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).
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2. The fruit of the calabash tree.
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3. A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made
from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.
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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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Crescentia cujete
n 1: tropical American evergreen that produces large round
gourds [syn: calabash, calabash tree, Crescentia
cujete]