'Calabash' definitions:

Definition of 'calabash'

noun

Round gourd of the calabash tree

noun

Tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds [syn: calabash, calabash tree, Crescentia cujete]

noun

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

noun

Bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd [syn: gourd, calabash]

noun

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

From: GCIDE

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]

Name :

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.