单词 | calabash |
释义 | Word Frequency calabash(ˈkæləˌbæʃ) noun 1. Also called: calabash tree a tropical American evergreen tree, Crescentia cujete, that produces large round gourds: family Bignoniaceae 2. another name for the bottle gourd 3. the gourd of either of these plants 4. the dried hollow shell of a gourd used as the bowl of a tobacco pipe, a bottle, rattle, etc 5. calabash nutmeg Word origin C17: from obsolete French calabasse, from Spanish calabaza, perhaps from Arabic qar'ah yābisah dry gourd, from qarah gourd + yābisah dry |
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