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Noun: calabash 'ka-lu`bash- Round gourd of the calabash tree
- Tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
- calabash tree, Crescentia cujete - Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits
- bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria - Bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
- gourd - A pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd
- calabash pipe
Derived forms: calabashes Type of: bottle, gourd, gourd vine, pipe, tobacco pipe, tree Part of: Crescentia, genus Crescentia, genus Lagenaria, Lagenaria Encyclopedia: Calabash, NC Calabash Calabash, United States Virgin Islands Calabash, North Carolina |