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 Cal·a·bash n.
 1. The common gourd (plant or fruit).
 2. The fruit of the calabash tree.
 3. A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.
 Calabash tree. Bot., a tree of tropical America (Crescentia cujete), producing a large gourdlike fruit, containing a purgative pulp. Its hard shell, after the removal of the pulp, is used for cups, bottles, etc.  The African calabash tree is the baobab.
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