[kal-uh-bash] 
| calabash (ˈkæləˌbæʃ) | |
| —n | |
| 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 a tropical African shrub, Monodora myristica, whose oily aromatic seeds can be used as nutmegs: family Annonaceae |
| [C17: from obsolete French calabasse, from Spanish calabaza, perhaps from Arabic qar`ah yābisah dry gourd, from qar`ah gourd + yābisah dry] | |
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