Calabash tree Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
    calabash; Crescentia cujete.

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Definitions
  1. . (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.

Webster 1913