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calabash
[ kal-uh-bash ]
/ ˈkæl əˌbæʃ /
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Origin of calabash
1590–1600; <Middle French calabasse<Spanish calabaza<Catalan carabaça, perhaps <Arabic qarʿah yābisah gourd (that is) dry
Words nearby calabash
cakravartin, cal, calaba, Calabar, Calabar bean, calabash, calabaza, calabazilla, calabogus, calaboose, calabrasella
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British Dictionary definitions for calabash
calabash
/ (ˈkæləˌbæʃ) /
noun
Also called: calabash tree a tropical American evergreen tree, Crescentia cujete, that produces large round gourds: family Bignoniaceae
another name for the bottle gourd
the gourd of either of these plants
the dried hollow shell of a gourd used as the bowl of a tobacco pipe, a bottle, rattle, etc
calabash nutmeg a tropical African shrub, Monodora myristica, whose oily aromatic seeds can be used as nutmegs: family Annonaceae
Word Origin for calabash
C17: from obsolete French calabasse, from Spanish calabaza, perhaps from Arabic qar`ah yābisah dry gourd, from qar`ah gourd + yābisah dry
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