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单词 calabash
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calabash in British English

(ˈkæləˌbæʃ)
noun
1.  Also called: calabash tree
a tropical American evergreen tree, Crescentia cujete, that produces large round gourds: family Bignoniaceae
2.  another name for the bottle gourd
3. 
the gourd of either of these plants
4. 
the dried hollow shell of a gourd used as the bowl of a tobacco pipe, a bottle, rattle, etc
5.  calabash nutmeg
Word origin
C17: from obsolete French calabasse, from Spanish calabaza, perhaps from Arabic qar'ah yābisah dry gourd, from qarah gourd + yābisah dry

calabash in American English

(ˈkæləˌbæʃ)
noun
1. 
a tropical American tree (Crescentia cujete) of the bignonia family, or its large, gourdlike fruit
2. 
a. 
an Old World tropical vine (Lagenaria siceraria) of the gourd family, or its bottle-shaped, gourdlike fruit
b. 
a large smoking pipe made from the neck of this gourd
3. 
the dried, hollow shell of a gourd or calabash, used as a bowl, cup, etc.
4. 
any of various gourds
Word origin
Fr calebasse < Sp calabaza; prob. < Ar qárʼa ybisa, dry gourd

Examples of 'calabash' in a sentence
calabash

Vassili gave us a calabash of yoghurt with some clingfilm over it.
Robert Wilson BLOOD IS DIRT (2002)
Even this one, which will stay fresh for as long as a calabash of fish in the sun.
Robert Wilson BLOOD IS DIRT (2002)
He had a sick daughter and a wife who'd had to take to the streets selling live chickens from a calabash.
Robert Wilson BLOOD IS DIRT (2002)

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