calabash

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calabash - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Calabash \Cal"a*bash\ (k[a^]l"[.a]*b[a^]sh), n. [Sp. calabaza,
     or Pg. calaba[,c]a, caba[,c]a (cf. F. Calebasse), lit., a dry
     gourd, fr. Ar. qar', fem., a kind of gourd + aibas dry.]
     1. The common gourd (plant or fruit).
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     2. The fruit of the calabash tree.
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     3. A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made
        from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.
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     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.
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calabash - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  calabash
      n 1: round gourd of the calabash tree
      2: tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
         [syn: calabash, calabash tree, Crescentia cujete]
      3: Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped
         gourds as fruits [syn: bottle gourd, calabash, Lagenaria   siceraria
         ]
      4: bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd [syn:
         gourd, calabash]
      5: a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made
         from a calabash gourd [syn: calabash, calabash pipe]

calabash - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Calabash, NC (town, FIPS 9540)
    Location: 33.89854 N, 78.57700 W
    Population (1990): 1210 (786 housing units)
    Area: 4.7 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 28467