calabash

  1. Noun.  A vine grown for its fruit, which can either be harvested young and used as a vegetable or harvested mature, dried and used as a container, like a gourd.
  2. Noun.  (originally) That fruit.
  3. Noun.  A utensil traditionally made of the dried shell of a calabash and used as a bottle, dipper, utensil or pipe, etc.

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