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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 calabash tree
      n : tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
          [syn: calabash, Crescentia cujete]