Calabash Synonyms

kălə-băsh
Tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. calabash tree
  2. Crescentia cujete
Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. bottle gourd
  2. Lagenaria siceraria
Bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. gourd
A pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. calabash pipe

Calabash Sentence Examples

  • The Jamaica or calabash nutmeg is derived from Monodora Myristica, the Brazilian from Cryptocarya moschata, the Peruvian from Laurelia sempervirens, the Madagascar or clove nutmeg from Agathophyllum aromaticum, and the Californian or stinking nutmeg from Torreya Myristica.

  • Soon after death food is offered to the departed - with an infant a calabash of its mother's milk - and that he may have no wants, his earthly possessions, after being broken, are laid near his restingplace.

  • Iron jujus handled by one man and a calabash Juju by another.

  • The basbab or calabash tree, known in the eastern Sudan as the tebeldi and locally Homr, is fairly common and being naturally hollow the trees collect water, which the natives regularly tap. Another common source of water supply is a small kind of water melon which grows wild and is also cultivated.

  • This succulent berry is in some cases highly perfumed, and affords a delicate fruit for the dessert-table, as in the case of the "granadilla" (P. quadrangularis), P. edulis, P. macrocarpa, and various species of Tacsonia known as "curubas" in Spanish South America; P. laurifolia is the water-lemon, and P. maliformis the sweet calabash of the West Indies.

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