calabash

calabash is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] The common gourd (plant or fruit).

[2] The fruit of the calabash tree.

[3] A water dipper, bottle, backet, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd. Calabash tree. (Bot.), a tree of tropical America (Crescentia cujete), producing a large gourdike 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.

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