calabash
IPA: kæɫʌbˈæʃ
noun
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A calabash and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
- (music) A musical instrument, most commonly a drum or rattle, made from a calabash fruit.
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Examples of "calabash" in Sentences
- In her hand she carried an empty calabash.
- Some are made from dried gourd or calabash.
- In Hawaii a calabash is a large serving bowl.
- The women also carry calabashes as a status symbol.
- It was served in this thing called a calabash bowl.
- This wonderful smell comes from the fruit calabash .
- The calabash was the _ipu_ here mentioned, the same as the
- This sponsorship enabled the Calabash to grow and bear fruit.
- Calabash nutmeg has a nutmeg like flavour with a pungent overtone.
- Mate is served with a metal straw from a shared hollow calabash gourd.
- For this reason, one of the calabash subspecies is known as the bottle gourd.
- For this reason, one of the calabash subspecies is known as the bottle gourd' .
- The calabash is the fruit from the national tree and it resembles a coconut from the outside, but smooth.
- Israel Kamakawiwo'ole -- his proper name -- was a distant relation of Keola, his so-called calabash cousin.
- They are aromatic and impart to the fruit the odor and flavor of nutmeg; hence they are also known as calabash nutmegs.
- A couple of spades, a trowel and a calabash were their only tools, but our adventurer was a knowing man, and "knowledge is power."
- One day, while carrying him about, I picked up a large gourd called a calabash, and, having cleared out the inside, I pressed into it the juice of grapes.
- “We are impounding their bikes and want to take them to court so they can explain why they think wearing a calabash is good enough for their safety,” he said.
- The chalk-like substance - also known as calabash clay, nzu, poto, calabar stone, mabele, argile or la craie - can be sold as large pellets or in blocks that resemble clay or mud.
- # -- Round their villages and pahs they dug up the soil and planted the sweet potato, and the taro, which is the root of a kind of arum lily; they also grew the gourd called calabash, from whose hard rind they made pots and bowls and dishes.