crescentia cujete

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Crescentia cujete
    n 1: tropical American evergreen that produces large round
         gourds [syn: {calabash}, {calabash tree}, {Crescentia
         cujete}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Gourd tree \Gourd" tree"\ (Bot.)
   A tree (the {Crescentia Cujete}, or calabash tree) of the
   West Indies and Central America.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Calabash \Cal"a*bash\ (k[a^]l"[.a]*b[a^]sh), n. [Sp. calabaza,
   or Pg. calaba[,c]a, caba[,c]a (cf. F. Calebasse), lit., a dry
   gourd, fr. Ar. qar', fem., a kind of gourd + aibas dry.]
   1. The common gourd (plant or fruit).
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   2. The fruit of the calabash tree.
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   3. A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made
      from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.
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   {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.
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