calabash
Meaning of calabash
noun
- A tree (known as the calabash tree; Crescentia cujete) native to Central and South America, the West Indies, and southern Florida, bearing large, round fruit used to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this tree.
- The bottle gourd (calabash vine, Lagenaria siceraria), believed to have originated in Africa, which is grown for its fruit that are used as a vegetable and to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this plant.
- A container made from the mature, dried shell of the fruit of one of the above plants; also, a similarly shaped container made from some other material.
- A calabash and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
- A musical instrument, most commonly a drum or rattle, made from a calabash fruit.
Information about calabash
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Hyphenation of calabash
cal-abash
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- calabash is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
calabash synonyms
Meaning gourd:
Words that rhyme with calabash
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