ETYM Spanish calabaza, or Portu. calabaça, cabaça (cf. French Calebasse), lit., a dry gourd, from Arabic qar', fem., a kind of gourd + aibas dry.
1. Round gourd of the calabash tree.
2. Tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds.
Tropical South American evergreen tree Crescentia cujete, family Bignoniaceae, with gourds 50 cm/20 in across, which are used as water containers. The Old World tropical vine bottle gourd Lagenaria siceraria of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae is sometimes called calabash, and it produces equally large true gourds.
SYN. calabash tree, Crescentia cujete. + prikaži više

(Homonym: gored).
1. Any of numerous hard-rinded inedible fruits.
2. Any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears hard-rinded fruits; SYN. gourd vine.
3. Made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd; SYN. calabash.
Names applied to various members of the family Cucurbitaceae, including melons, squashes, and pumpkins. In a narrower sense, the name is applied to an inedible, ornamental variety of pumpkin Cucurbita pepa. + prikaži više