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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Crescentia cujete | by the DICT Development Group |
| 3 results for Crescentia cujete | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Calabash \Cal"a*bash\ (k[acr]l"[adot]*b[acr]sh), n. [Sp. calabaza, or Pg. calaba[cced]a, caba[cced]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). 2. The fruit of the calabash tree. 3. A water dipper, bottle, bascket, 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 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. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Gourd tree \Gourd" tree"\ (Bot.) A tree (the {Crescentia Cujete}, or calabash tree) of the West Indies and Central America. | |
