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Webster 1913 Edition
Calabash
Cal′a-bash
(kăl′ȧ-băsh)
, Noun.
[Sp.
calabaza
, or Pg. calabaça
, cabaça
(cf. F. Calebasse
), lit., a dry gourd, fr. Ar. qar’
, fem., a kind of gourd + aibas
dry.] 1.
The common gourd (plant or fruit).
2.
The fruit of the calabash tree.
3.
A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.
Calabash tree
. (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. The African calabash tree
is the baobab.Webster 1828 Edition
Calabash
CALABASH
,Noun.
1.
A vessel made of a dried gourd-shell or of the shell of a calabash tree, used for containing liquors, or goods, as pitch, rosin and the like.2.
A popular name of the gourd-plant, or Cucurbita.