Definition of Calabesh
Cal"a*bash (kăl"&adot;*băsh),
n. [Sp. calabaza, or Pg.
calabaça, cabaça (cf. F.
Calebasse), lit., a dry gourd, fr. Ar. qar', fem.,
a kind of gourd + aibas dry.] 1. The
common gourd (plant or fruit).
2. The fruit of the calabash
tree.
3. A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or
other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or
gourd.
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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- A vine grown for its fruit, which can either be harvested young and used as a vegetable or harvested mature, dried, and used as a bottle, utensil, or pipe, like a gourd.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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