calabash
A tree native to Central and South America, the West Indies, and southern Florida,…A tree (known as the calabash tree; Crescentia cujete) native to Central and South America, the West Indies, and southern Florida, bearing large, round fruit used to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this tree.
» Stuffing cucumber and calabash are cucurbits.
Meaning
6 sensesA tree (known as the calabash tree; Crescentia cujete) native to Central and South America, the West Indies, and southern Florida, bearing large, round fruit used to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this tree.
The bottle gourd (calabash vine, Lagenaria siceraria), believed to have originated in Africa, which is grown for its fruit that are used as a vegetable and to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this plant.
Flaschenkürbis, Flaschenkürbis
горля́нкаgorljánka, горля́нкаgorljánka
A container made from the mature, dried shell of the fruit of one of the above plants; also, a similarly shaped container made from some other material.
калаба́шkalabáš, кальянkalʹjan
bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
A calabash and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
A musical instrument, most commonly a drum or rattle, made from a calabash fruit.
(US, archaic, humorous, slang)The head.
Examples
3 sentencesStuffing cucumber and calabash are cucurbits.
Stuffing cucumber and calabash are gourds.
Sherlock Holmes is smoking from a calabash pipe.
Translations
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Origin
From French calebasse, from Spanish calabaza (“gourd; pumpkin”), possibly from Arabic قَرْFrom French calebasse, from Spanish calabaza (“gourd; pumpkin”), possibly from Arabic قَرْعَةٌ يَابِسَةٌ (qarʕatun yābisatun, “dry gourd”) or directly from its etymon Persian خربزه (xarboze, “melon”), possibly ultimately from Sanskrit त्रपुस (trapusa, “colocynth fruit”) (compare Persian تربزه (tarboze, “watermelon”)). The English word is cognate with Catalan carabassa (“pumpkin; orange colour”), Galician cabaza (“gourd, pumpkin, squash; calabash (container)”), Occitan calebasso, carabasso, carbasso, Portuguese cabaça (“gourd; calabash (container)”), Sicilian caravazza (and caramazza).
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Forms
plural: calabashes| Singular | calabash |
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Synonyms
27 synonyms- a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd:calabash pipe
- tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds:calabash treeCrescentia cujete
- bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd:gourd
- Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits:bottle gourdLagenaria siceraria