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.
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A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.
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.
WordNet
n. tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds [syn: calabash, Crescentia cujete]
Usage examples of "calabash tree".
It was begotten when I went to marvel at the wonderful calabash tree with its sudden fruit, and communed with the severed head of One-Hunter.
About a quarter of the way up the saddle, just off to one side, we found a trench on a flat bit under a calabash tree.
Blood Woman refused to tell her father how the child came to be in her womb, since it was forbidden to go to the calabash tree where One Hunahpu's head had been perched.