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Calabash

noun

Round gourd of the calabash tree.

Tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds. Synonyms: calabash tree, Crescentia cujete.

Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits. Synonyms: bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria.

Bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd. Synonym: gourd.

A pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd. Synonym: calabash pipe.

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"Calabash" Quotes from Famous Books

... in polyglot expostulations with the stranger on the score of his obstinacy, but all to no purpose; to use a popular expression, he was as dumb as the Doges. He deigned, however, to empty at a single draught a calabash of Malaga that Willis gave him, ...

— Willis the Pilot • Paul Adrien

Words linked to "Calabash" : Crescentia, genus Lagenaria, calabash pipe, gourd vine, tree, bottle, genus Crescentia, Lagenaria, tobacco pipe, pipe