Search Result for "calabash": 
Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (5)

1. round gourd of the calabash tree;

2. tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds;
[syn: calabash, calabash tree, Crescentia cujete]

3. Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits;
[syn: bottle gourd, calabash, Lagenaria siceraria]

4. bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd;
[syn: gourd, calabash]

5. a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd;
[syn: calabash, calabash pipe]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Calabash \Cal"a*bash\ (k[a^]l"[.a]*b[a^]sh), n. [Sp. calabaza, or Pg. calaba[,c]a, caba[,c]a (cf. F. Calebasse), lit., a dry gourd, fr. Ar. qar', fem., a kind of gourd + aibas dry.] 1. The common gourd (plant or fruit). [1913 Webster] 2. The fruit of the calabash tree. [1913 Webster] 3. A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd. [1913 Webster] Calabash tree. (Bot.), a tree of tropical America (Crescentia cujete), producing a large gourdlike 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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

calabash n 1: round gourd of the calabash tree 2: tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds [syn: calabash, calabash tree, Crescentia cujete] 3: Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits [syn: bottle gourd, calabash, Lagenaria siceraria] 4: bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd [syn: gourd, calabash] 5: a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd [syn: calabash, calabash pipe]
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):

Calabash, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina Population (2000): 711 Housing Units (2000): 508 Land area (2000): 1.417715 sq. miles (3.671864 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.096456 sq. miles (0.249820 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.514171 sq. miles (3.921684 sq. km) FIPS code: 09540 Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37 Location: 33.892619 N, 78.566547 W ZIP Codes (1990): 28467 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Calabash, NC Calabash