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Utensil made from a gourd shell
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calabash
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The calabash , bottle gourd , or white-flowered gourd , Lagenaria siceraria (synonym Lagenaria vulgaris Ser.), also known as opo squash (from Tagalog : upo ) or long melon , is a vine grown for its fruit, which can either be harvested young and used as ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "dried, hollowed gourd used as a drinking cup," from Spanish calabaza , possibly from Arabic qar'a yabisa "dry gourd," from Persian kharabuz , used of various large melons; or from a pre-Roman Iberian *calapaccia .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. round gourd of the calabash tree tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds [syn: calabash tree , Crescentia cujete ] Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits [syn: bottle gourd , Lagenaria siceraria ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.] The common gourd (plant or fruit). The fruit of the calabash tree. ...
Usage examples of calabash.
While Brown went to fetch some wild yams, Minarii kindled a fire, Seated several stones, and dropped them into a calabash of water, which began to boil at once.
Eggs were then dropped in till the calabash was full, and the yams hastily scraped and roasted on the coals.
She had a small calabash in her hand and was bending to take up water when Hutia spoke.
Prudence rose from the pool, donned her kilt and mantle with trembling hands, took up her calabash, and disappeared into the bush.
Smith spread the plantain leaf on the ground and began to remove the contents of the basket, displaying a large baked fish, the half of a cold roast suckling pig, cooked breadfruit, scraped white and wrapped in leaves, and a small calabash filled with the delicious coconut sauce called taioro.
He hailed the native man cheerily, then paused, with the calabash in his hand, to give him a keen glance.
He bent the flexible coil so that it passed into a large calabash sawed in half, and out, through a watertight joint, after a dozen turns.
The lid of the kettle was of heavy cast iron, and fitted tightly, but McCoy now plastered it about with clay before he filled his sawn calabash with water and stood a pewter half-pint on a rock, where it would catch the drip from the coil.
Then, after ladling more cool water into the calabash, he seated himself with his back to a tree.
Tararu took the calabash from its hook, filled it at the water barrel, and replaced it so that a thin trickle fell on the stone.
She retired to a little distance while he ate, and fetched him a calabash of water to rinse his hands when the meal was done.
He rose, stretching his muscles gingerly, limped out through the hack door to the water barrel, and dashed a calabash of water over his head.
Well, sir, the long and the short of it was that I fetched a couple of half-pints and a calabash of water, and between us we finished the whole bottle.
So stubborn was its consistency, that in conveying my heavily-weighted hand to my mouth, the connecting links almost raised the calabash from the mats on which it had been placed.
Overjoyed at this, I seized a calabash of water, and dashed its contents upon his face, then wiping away the blood, anxiously examined the wound.