Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A tropical American tree (Crescentia cujete) bearing hard-shelled, gourdlike fruits on the trunk and main branches.
- noun The fruit of either of these or related plants.
- noun A utensil, container, or musical instrument made from the dried, hollowed-out shell of these fruits.
- noun A smoking pipe with a curved stem and a large bowl made from the shell of a gourd.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The head, with an implication of emptiness.
- noun A fruit of the tree Crescentia Cujete hollowed out, dried, and used as a vessel to contain liquids.
- noun A gourd of any kind used in the same way.
- noun A popular name of the gourd-plant, Lagenaria vulgaris.
- noun A name given to the red cap or tarboosh of Tunis.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The common gourd (plant or fruit).
- noun The fruit of the calabash tree.
- noun A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.
- noun (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. TheAfrican calabash tree is the baobab.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
vine grown for itsfruit , which can either be harvested young and used as a vegetable or harvested mature, dried and used as a container, like agourd . - noun originally That fruit
- noun A utensil traditionally made of the dried
shell of a calabash and used as a bottle, dipper, utensil or pipe, etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun round gourd of the calabash tree
- noun bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
- noun tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
- noun Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits
- noun a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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“We are impounding their bikes and want to take them to court so they can explain why they think wearing a calabash is good enough for their safety,” he said.
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Israel Kamakawiwo'ole -- his proper name -- was a distant relation of Keola, his so-called calabash cousin.
Beard 2010
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The calabash is the fruit from the national tree and it resembles a coconut from the outside, but smooth.
Jounen Kweyol 2007
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It was served in this thing called a calabash bowl.
Jounen Kweyol 2007
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One day, while carrying him about, I picked up a large gourd called a calabash, and, having cleared out the inside, I pressed into it the juice of grapes.
Favorite Fairy Tales Logan Marshall
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A couple of spades, a trowel and a calabash were their only tools, but our adventurer was a knowing man, and "knowledge is power."
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various
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# -- Round their villages and pahs they dug up the soil and planted the sweet potato, and the taro, which is the root of a kind of arum lily; they also grew the gourd called calabash, from whose hard rind they made pots and bowls and dishes.
History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 George Sutherland 1880
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The calabash was the _ipu_ here mentioned, the same as the
Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877
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They are aromatic and impart to the fruit the odor and flavor of nutmeg; hence they are also known as calabash nutmegs.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861
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The chalk-like substance - also known as calabash clay, nzu, poto, calabar stone, mabele, argile or la craie - can be sold as large pellets or in blocks that resemble clay or mud.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Abel Pharmboy none@example.com 2010
yarb commented on the word calabash
The people of his island of Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl.
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 13
July 24, 2008
bilby commented on the word calabash
See citation on bund.
September 1, 2008
jaime_d commented on the word calabash
From "Au Tombeau de Charles Fourier" by Guy Davenport
January 19, 2010
tumbel commented on the word calabash
...the ngomi, a plucked lute made from a combinaton of wood or calabash and goatskin, used by griots in northwest Africa...
March 19, 2010