calabash Synonyms
Another word for calabash
• noun (Context 1)
A dried, hollowed-out gourd shell used as a traditional bowl, water container, ladle, resonating chamber for percussion and stringed musical instruments, or curved smoking pipe.
"The host offered the travelers cool water served in a finely carved gourd."
• noun (Context 2)
The smooth-skinned, light-green fruit of the bottle gourd vine (Lagenaria siceraria), harvested while young and tender to be cooked and eaten as a culinary vegetable in Asian, African, and Caribbean cuisines.
"She diced the young gourd and simmered it with lentils, garlic, and turmeric for dinner."
• noun (Context 3)
The large, globose, hard-shelled fruit produced by the tropical American calabash tree (Crescentia cujete) or the mature bottle gourd vine, whose woody rind is dried rather than eaten.
"High in the branches, a heavy green gourd hung directly from the trunk of the tree."