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Definitions for Calabash

[1] any of various gourds, especially the bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria.
[2] a tropical American tree, Crescentia cujete, of the bignonia family, bearing large, gourdlike fruit.
[3] any of several other plants having gourdlike fruit.
[4] the fruit of any of these plants.
[5] the dried, hollowed-out shell of any of these fruits, used as a container or utensil.
[6] a bottle, kettle, ladle, etc., made from such a shell.
[7] a tobacco pipe with a large bowl made from a calabash and usually having a curved stem.
[8] a gourd used as a rattle, drum, etc.
[9] Also called: calabash tree a tropical American evergreen tree, Crescentia cujete, that produces large round gourds: family Bignoniaceae
[10] another name for the bottle gourd
[11] the gourd of either of these plants
[12] the dried hollow shell of a gourd used as the bowl of a tobacco pipe, a bottle, rattle, etc
[13] calabash nutmeg a tropical African shrub, Monodora myristica, whose oily aromatic seeds can be used as nutmegs: family Annonaceae

Words nearby Calabash

cal, cal., calaba, calabar, calabar bean, calabash, calabaza, calabazilla, calabogus, calaboose, calabrasella

Origin of Calabash

1590–1600; < Middle French calabasse < Spanish calabaza < Catalan carabaça, perhaps < Arabic qarʿah yābisah gourd (that is) dry

Word origin for Calabash

C17: from obsolete French calabasse, from Spanish calabaza, perhaps from Arabic qar`ah yābisah dry gourd, from qar`ah gourd + yābisah dry