calabash
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[edit] Etymology
From Spanish calabaza "pumpkin, gourd", possibly from Arabic قرعة يابسة (qárʕa yābisa), “‘dry gourd’”) or directly from Persian (kharabuz) (denoting various large melons), or from a pre-Roman Iberian word *calapaccia; cognate with French calebasse "gourd"
[edit] Noun
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calabash (plural calabashes)
- 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.
- (originally) That fruit
- A utensil traditionally made of the dried shell of a calabash and used as a bottle, dipper, utensil or pipe, etc.
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[edit] Translations
a vine grown for its fruit
that fruit
utensil made from it
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