Calabash

Quick meaning: Calabash is a noun meaning A calabash and its contents; as much as fills such a container.

Meaning

A calabash and its contents; as much as fills such a container.

More Meanings

1. (music) A musical instrument, most commonly a drum or rattle, made from a calabash fruit.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.

Example Sentences

There was a teacher who taught children to read under a calabash tree, and this teacher's name was Goso.

Asian gourds grow like cucumbers […] and feature strong flavors that are often used in Indian, Chinese, and Southeast Asian soups and stews. Some types to try in your garden include the bitter gourd and calabash gourd.

CALABASH GOURD (LAGENARIA SICERARIA) […] Appropriately bowing to AHP, the American Herbal Products Association, for the betterment of the herbal industry, I will now use its standardized common name, Calabash Gourd, a vine, not to be confused with the Calabash tree (Crescentia).

[T]he manner of separating the gold from the sand, is very simple, and is frequently performed by the women in the middle of the town; for when the searchers return from the valleys in the evening, they commonly bring with them each a calabash or two of sand, to be washed by such of the females as remain at home.

Word Forms

• calabashes

Synonyms for calabash

Depending on context, synonyms include dudhi, gourd.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gourd, melon, calibash, higuero, calamondin, squash.

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