Definitions for calabash
ˈkæl əˌbæʃcal·abash

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. calabashnoun

   round gourd of the calabash tree

2. calabash, calabash tree, Crescentia cujetenoun

   tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds

3. bottle gourd, calabash, Lagenaria sicerarianoun

   Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits

4. gourd, calabashnoun

   bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd

5. calabash, calabash pipenoun

   a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. calabashnoun

   A vine grown for its fruit, which can either be harvested young and used as a vegetable or harvested mature, dried and used as a container, like a gourd.

2. calabashnoun

   That fruit

3. calabashnoun

   A utensil traditionally made of the dried shell of a calabash and used as a bottle, dipper, utensil or pipe, etc.

4. Etymology: From calabaza, possibly from قرعة يابسة or directly from Persian خربزه, or from a pre-Roman Iberian word *calapaccia; cognate with French calebasse

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Calabash

   Calabash (; Lagenaria siceraria), also known as bottle gourd, white-flowered gourd, long melon, birdhouse gourd, New Guinea bean, Tasmania bean, and opo squash, is a vine grown for its fruit. It can be either harvested young to be consumed as a vegetable, or harvested mature to be dried and used as a utensil, container, or a musical instrument. When it is fresh, the fruit has a light green smooth skin and white flesh. Calabash fruits have a variety of shapes: they can be huge and rounded, small and bottle-shaped, or slim and serpentine, and they can grow to be over a metre long. Rounder varieties are typically called calabash gourds. The gourd was one of the world's first cultivated plants grown not primarily for food, but for use as containers. The bottle gourd may have been carried from Asia to Africa, Europe, and the Americas in the course of human migration, or by seeds floating across the oceans inside the gourd. It has been proven to have been globally domesticated (and existed in the New World) during the Pre-Columbian era. Because bottle gourds are also called "calabashes", they are sometimes confused with the hard, hollow fruits of the unrelated calabash tree (Crescentia cujete), whose fruits are also used to make utensils, containers, and musical instruments.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. calabash

   A calabash is a tropical American plant of the gourd family, which bears large, hard-shelled and typically bottle-shaped gourds. These gourds, also referred to as calabashes, are often dried and used as containers, utensils, or as a musical instrument across various cultures. It can also refer to any gourd-like fruit which are dried or hollowed for use.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Calabashnoun

   the common gourd (plant or fruit)

2. Calabashnoun

   the fruit of the calabash tree

3. Calabashnoun

   a water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd

4. Etymology: [Sp. calabaza, or Pg. calabaa, cabaa (cf. F. Calebasse), lit., a dry gourd, fr. Ar. qar', fem., a kind of gourd + aibas dry.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Calabash

   Lagenaria siceraria, bottle gourd, opo squash or long melon is a vine grown for its fruit, which can either be harvested young and used as a vegetable, or harvested mature, dried, and used as a bottle, utensil, or pipe. For this reason, the calabash is widely known as the bottle gourd. The fresh fruit has a light green smooth skin and a white flesh. Rounder varieties are called calabash gourds. They come in a variety of shapes, they can be huge and rounded, or small and bottle shaped, or slim and serpentine, more than a meter long. The calabash was one of the first cultivated plants in the world, grown not primarily for food, but for use as a water container. The bottle gourd may have been carried from Africa to Asia, Europe and the Americas in the course of human migration. It shares its common name with that of the calabash tree.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Calabash

   kal′a-bash, n. a tree of tropical America, bearing a large melon-like fruit, the shell of which, called a calabash, is used for domestic purposes, as holding liquids, &c. [Fr. calebasse—Sp. calabaza—Pers. kharbuz, melon.]

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. calabash

   Cucurbita, a gourd abundant within the tropics, furnishing drinking and washing utensils. At Tahiti and the Sandwich Islands they attain a diameter of 2 feet. There is also a calabash-tree, the fruit not exceeding the size of oranges.

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1. • Bottle
   • Gourd
   • Pipe
   • Tree

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of calabash in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of calabash in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of calabash in a Sentence

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   Monkey in the calabash.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=calabash
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Calabash
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calabash
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/calabash
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=calabash
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=calabash
8. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=calabash