Calabash
Calabash (kal"ȧ*bash) , noun
[Sp. calabaza, or Portuguese calabaca, cabaca (compare French Calebasse), lit., a dry gourd, from Arabic qar', fem., a kind of gourd + aibas dry.]
1.
The common gourd (plant or fruit).
2.
The fruit of the calabash tree.
3.
A water dipper, bottle, basket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.
Collocations (1)
Calabash tree (Botany) , 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.