(n): any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds
(n): tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
(n): a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
(n): Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits
(n): any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds
(n): bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
(n): a glass or plastic vessel used for storing drinks or other liquids; typically cylindrical without handles and with a narrow neck that can be plugged or capped
(n): a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd
(n): a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
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The people of his island of Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl.
- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 13