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noun

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

(2) Bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd

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

(4) Tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds

(5) Round gourd of the calabash tree

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Etymology

From calabaza "pumpkin, gourd", possibly from or directly from Persian (kharabuz) (denoting various large melons), or from a pre-Roman Iberian word *calapaccia; cognate with French calebasse "gourd"

Noun

A vine grown for its fruit, which can either be harvested young and used as a vegetable or harvested mature, dried and used as a container, like a gourd.
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A utensil traditionally made of the dried shell of a calabash and used as a bottle, dipper, utensil or pipe, etc.