1. a container made from the hard outside layer of a fruit or vegetable; the fruit or vegetable from which a calabash is made see also gourd

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2. (also calabash tree)
   a tropical tree that produces a large round fruit with very hard skin, also called calabash
Word Originmid 17th cent.: from French calebasse, from Spanish calabaza, perhaps from Persian k̲arbuz ‘melon’.

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