calabashes

Meaning of calabashes

noun
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. A calabash and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
  5. A musical instrument, most commonly a drum or rattle, made from a calabash fruit.

Information about calabashes

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Hyphenation of calabashes

cal-abashes

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
  • calabashes is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Words that rhyme with calabashes

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