calabash
- n round gourd of the calabash tree
- n tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
- n Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits
- n bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
- n a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd
- As soon as he died a calabash of palm wine was to be broken in the yard of his hut.
- In the forest-girt village of Kirawara, 48 miles north of Nairobi, an awe-struck crowd of 2,000 Kikuyu tribesmen squatted in the market place amid green bananas and calabash .
- The World Cup final will be played at Soccer City, the spectacularly revamped 94,000-seat stadium shaped like an African calabash gourd on the eastern outskirts of Soweto.