calabash tree

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calabash tree - 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 tree - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  calabash tree
      n 1: tropical American evergreen that produces large round
           gourds [syn: calabash, calabash tree, Crescentia cujete
           ]