calabash
NounWordNet 3.0
Noun (5)
- round gourd of the calabash tree
- tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourdsSynonyms: calabash treeCrescentia cujete
- Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruitsSynonyms: bottle gourdLagenaria siceraria
- bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourdSynonyms: gourd
- a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourdSynonyms: calabash pipe
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
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). [1913 Webster]
2.The fruit of the calabash tree. [1913 Webster]
3.A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]