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Calabash

noun

Round gourd of the calabash tree.

Tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds. Synonyms: calabash tree, Crescentia cujete.

Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits. Synonyms: bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria.

Bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd. Synonym: gourd.

A pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd. Synonym: calabash pipe.

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"Calabash" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the street. Both came to the rescue, but the O'Nales and Finnegans outnumbering the Dutch, made a Donnybrook onset, disarming and routing their adversaries, and capsizing barrels, boxes, kegs, decanters, and baskets of onions, into one general chaos,—taking possession of the Dutchman's calabash, and proclaiming ...

— Manuel Pereira • F. C. Adams

... arose that Muata was gone, he found a calabash of fat for the cooking, by the door of a hut. Some fat he rubbed on the soles of his feet to kill the scent. Then he sent the jackal into the woods and crawled into a hut, being stiff from the binding. In the hut he remained, rubbing ...

— In Search of the Okapi - A Story of Adventure in Central Africa • Ernest Glanville

... ground into flour for cakes baked on flat stones. They had no dishes except baskets and gourd-rinds, and their houses were tent-poles covered with hides. When a squaw wished to roast a piece of meat she thrust a sharp stick through it. When she wished to boil it she filled a large calabash-rind with water, put in it the materials of her stew, and threw stones into the fire to heat. When very hot these stones were raked out with a loop of twisted green reed or willow-shoots and put into the water. When enough had been put in to make the water boil, it was kept ...

— Days of the Discoverers • L. Lamprey

Words linked to "Calabash" : bottle, Lagenaria, tobacco pipe, tree, gourd vine, Crescentia, genus Crescentia, pipe, genus Lagenaria