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Meaning of calabash

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  calabash
      n 1: round gourd of the calabash tree
      2: tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
         [syn: {calabash}, {calabash tree}, {Crescentia cujete}]
      3: Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped
         gourds as fruits [syn: {bottle gourd}, {calabash}, {Lagenaria
         siceraria}]
      4: bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd [syn:
         {gourd}, {calabash}]
      5: a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made
         from a calabash gourd [syn: {calabash}, {calabash pipe}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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