CALABASH TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does calabash tree mean? 

• CALABASH TREE (noun)
  The noun CALABASH TREE has 1 sense:

1. tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds

  Familiarity information: CALABASH TREE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALABASH TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

calabash; calabash tree; Crescentia cujete

Hypernyms ("calabash tree" 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 tree" 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)