CALABASH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does calabash mean? 

• CALABASH (noun)
  The noun CALABASH has 5 senses:

1. round gourd of the calabash tree

2. tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds

3. Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits

4. bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd

5. a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd

  Familiarity information: CALABASH used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALABASH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Round gourd of the calabash tree

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("calabash" is a kind of...):

gourd (any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

calabash; calabash tree; Crescentia cujete

Hypernyms ("calabash" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Holonyms ("calabash" is a member of...):

Crescentia; genus Crescentia (a genus of tropical American trees of the family Bignoniaceae; has a short trunk and crooked limbs and drooping branches)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bottle gourd; calabash; Lagenaria siceraria

Hypernyms ("calabash" is a kind of...):

gourd; gourd vine (any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds)

Holonyms ("calabash" is a member of...):

genus Lagenaria; Lagenaria (bottle gourds)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

calabash; gourd

Hypernyms ("calabash" is a kind of...):

bottle (a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

calabash; calabash pipe

Hypernyms ("calabash" is a kind of...):

pipe; tobacco pipe (a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco)