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[ kal-uh-bash ] / ˈkæl əˌbæʃ /
nounany of various gourds, especially the bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria. a tropical American tree, Crescentia cujete, of the bignonia family, bearing large, gourdlike fruit. any of several other plants having gourdlike fruit. the fruit of any of these plants. the dried, hollowed-out shell of any of these fruits, used as a container or utensil. a bottle, kettle, ladle, etc., made from such a shell. a tobacco pipe with a large bowl made from a calabash and usually having a curved stem. a gourd used as a rattle, drum, etc. Origin of calabash1590–1600; <Middle French calabasse<Spanish calabaza<Catalan carabaça, perhaps <Arabic qarʿah yābisah gourd (that is) dry Words nearby calabashcakravartin, cal, calaba, Calabar, Calabar bean, calabash, calabaza, calabazilla, calabogus, calaboose, calabrasella Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for calabashThe woman who was the spokesperson held out a calabash, a hollowed out gourd traditionally used to hold the cutters' instruments. How the Gambia is Fighting FGC|Julia Lalla-Maharajh|February 5, 2011|DAILY BEAST The timing of Calabash, as everyone here seems to acknowledge, throws that debate into sharp relief. Jamaica's Big Book Party|Olivia Cole|June 3, 2010|DAILY BEAST It's in this spirit that Calabash surely puts the festival back into the term literary festival. Jamaica's Big Book Party|Olivia Cole|June 3, 2010|DAILY BEAST At the base of the trunk a calabash is put, and the latex trickles down into this by way of the zigzag cuts.
"Calabash, take the wine away," said the widow to her daughter. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6|Eugne Sue The priest's name was Kaleiioku, and his calabash was known as ipu-makani-a ka maumau, "the calabash of the perpetual winds." Legends of Ma-ui--a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina|W. D. Westervelt I took my calabash gourds and entered the boat that hung from the davits astern. The Rose of Paradise|Howard Pyle The shell (macua) is used to hold water (hence the popular name of Calabash tree). The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell|Andrew Battell
British Dictionary definitions for calabash
nounAlso called: calabash tree a tropical American evergreen tree, Crescentia cujete, that produces large round gourds: family Bignoniaceae another name for the bottle gourd the gourd of either of these plants the dried hollow shell of a gourd used as the bowl of a tobacco pipe, a bottle, rattle, etc calabash nutmeg a tropical African shrub, Monodora myristica, whose oily aromatic seeds can be used as nutmegs: family Annonaceae Word Origin for calabashC17: from obsolete French calabasse, from Spanish calabaza, perhaps from Arabic qar`ah yābisah dry gourd, from qar`ah gourd + yābisah dry Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |