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Noun: calabash  'ka-lu,bash
  1. Tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
    - calabash tree, Crescentia cujete
     
  2. Round gourd of the calabash tree
     
  3. Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits
    - bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria
     
  4. Bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
    - gourd
     
  5. 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, North Carolina