'Calabash tree' definitions:
Definition of 'calabash tree'
From: WordNet
noun
Tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds [syn: calabash, calabash tree, Crescentia cujete]
Definition of 'Calabash tree'
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]