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The common gourd (plant or fruit).

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  1. n. The common gourd (plant or fruit).
  2. n. The fruit of the calabash tree.
  3. n. A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.
  4. n. round gourd of the calabash tree
  5. n. tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
  6. n. Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits
  7. n. bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
  8. n. a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd
  9. 1. The common gourd (plant or fruit). 2. The fruit of the calabash tree. 3. A water dipper, bottle, backet, 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 gourdike 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.
  10. n:100 n. round gourd of the calabash tree n. tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds n. a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd