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calabash (n.)

"dried, hollowed gourd used as a drinking cup," 1650s, callebass, from Spanish calabaza, possibly from Arabic qar'a yabisa "dry gourd," from Persian kharabuz, used of various large melons; or from a pre-Roman Iberian *calapaccia. As "the fruit of the calabash tree" (from which the cups were made) from 1590s.

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Definitions of calabash from WordNet

calabash (n.)
round gourd of the calabash tree;
calabash (n.)
tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds;
Synonyms: calabash tree / Crescentia cujete
calabash (n.)
Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits;
Synonyms: bottle gourd / Lagenaria siceraria
calabash (n.)
bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd;
Synonyms: gourd
calabash (n.)
a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd;
Synonyms: calabash pipe
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