calabash : Idioms & Phrases

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calabash pipe

  • noun a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd
    calabash.
WordNet

Calabash tree

  • noun tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
    calabash; Crescentia cujete.
WordNet
  • . (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

Sweet calabash

  • noun West Indian passionflower with edible apple-sized fruit
    Passiflora maliformis.
  • noun apple-sized passion fruit of the West Indies
WordNet
  • (Bot.), a plant of the genus Passiflora (P. maliformis) growing in the West Indies, and producing a roundish, edible fruit, the size of an apple.
Webster 1913