Definitions for calabash

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calabash cal·a·bash

Spelling: [kal-uh-bash]

IPA: /ˈkæl əˌbæʃ/

Calabash is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 166 anagrams from letters in calabash (aaabchls).

Definitions for calabash

noun

1. any of various gourds, especially the bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria.
2. a tropical American tree, Crescentia cujete, of the bignonia family, bearing large, gourdlike fruit.
3. any of several other plants having gourdlike fruit.
4. the fruit of any of these plants.
5. the dried, hollowed-out shell of any of these fruits, used as a container or utensil.
6. a bottle, kettle, ladle, etc., made from such a shell.
7. a tobacco pipe with a large bowl made from a calabash and usually having a curved stem.
8. a gourd used as a rattle, drum, etc.

Origin of calabash

1590-1600; Middle French calabasse Spanish calabaza Catalan carabaça, perhaps Arabic qarʿah yābisah gourd (that is) dry

Examples for calabash

The woman who was the spokesperson held out a calabash, a hollowed out gourd traditionally used to hold the cutters' instruments.

The timing of calabash, as everyone here seems to acknowledge, throws that debate into sharp relief.

Then, without drinking, he came running with the calabash to the white men.

There was no mirror and she looked into the calabash, seeking for her reflection.

You see me no more comfortable in it than a cat coiffed with a calabash.

We found the fragments of the calabash strewed over the ground.

It's in this spirit that calabash surely puts the festival back into the term literary festival.

I handed him the calabash, and the liquor pleasing his palate, he drank it all off.

About a glassful of limpid fluid flowed from it into the calabash.

And taking a morsel of the panela, he soaked it in the water in the calabash and sucked it.