'Calabash' definitions:
Definition of 'calabash'
(from WordNet)
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]
Definition of 'Calabash'
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]
Calabash, NC -- U.S. town in North Carolina
From: Gazetteer 2000
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.