Usually means: Gourd used as container, instrument.
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  1. calabash: Merriam-Webster
  2. calabash: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. calabash: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. calabash: Collins English Dictionary
  5. calabash: Vocabulary.com
  6. Calabash, calabash: Wordnik
  7. calabash: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. calabash: Wiktionary
  9. calabash: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. calabash: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. calabash: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Calabash, calabash: Dictionary.com
  13. calabash: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Calabash (disambiguation), Calabash (percussion), Calabash: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Calabash: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. calabash: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. calabash: Rhymezone
  18. Calabash: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. calabash: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. calabash: FreeDictionary.org
  21. calabash: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. calabash: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. Calabash: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. calabash: Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. calabash: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A tree (known as the calabash tree; Crescentia cujete) native to Central and South America, the West Indies, and southern Florida, bearing large, round fruit used to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this tree.
noun:  The bottle gourd (calabash vine, Lagenaria siceraria), believed to have originated in Africa, which is grown for its fruit that are used as a vegetable and to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this plant.
noun:  A container made from the mature, dried shell of the fruit of one of the above plants; also, a similarly shaped container made from some other material.
noun:  A calabash and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
noun:  (music) A musical instrument, most commonly a drum or rattle, made from a calabash fruit.

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