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cal·a·bash  (kl-bsh)

n.

1. An annual vine (Lagenaria siceraria) having white flowers and smooth, large, hard-shelled gourds. Also called bottle gourd, white-flowered gourd.

2. A tropical American tree (Crescentia cujete) bearing hard-shelled, gourdlike fruits on the trunk and main branches. Also called calabash tree.

3. Any of certain similar or related plants.

4. The fruit of any of these plants.

5. A utensil or container made from the dried, hollowed-out shell of any of these fruits.

6. A smoking pipe with a curved stem and a large bowl made from the shell of a gourd.

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[French calebasse, gourd, from Spanish calabaza, from Catalan carabaça, perhaps from Arabic qar'a ybisa, dried gourd : qar'a, gourd + ybisa, feminine of ybis, dried, participle of yabisa, to become dry; see yb in Semitic roots.]

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calabash

Noun

1. a large round gourd that grows on a tropical American tree

2. a bowl made from the dried hollow shell of a calabash [obsolete French calabasse]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	calabash - round gourd of the calabash tree     gourd - any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds
	2.	calabash - tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds calabash tree, Crescentia cujete Crescentia, genus Crescentia - a genus of tropical American trees of the family Bignoniaceae; has a short trunk and crooked limbs and drooping branches tree - a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
	3.	calabash - Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria gourd vine, gourd - any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds genus Lagenaria, Lagenaria - bottle gourds
	4.	calabash - bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd gourd bottle - a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped
	5.	calabash - a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd calabash pipe pipe, tobacco pipe - a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco