calabash in Dutch

calabash in Dutch

What does "calabash" mean?

1. noun A tree (known as the calabash tree; Crescentia cujete) native to Central and South America, the West Indies, and southern Florida, bearing large, round fruit used to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this tree.
2. noun A climbing plant thought to come from Africa, grown for its fruit, which is eaten as a vegetable or made into containers; also the fruit itself.
3. noun A container made from the dried outer shell of this fruit, or something shaped like it made from another material.
   "Saje put the calabash in the king's hands. There was a hush from the crowd. The calabash was large and painted with beautiful designs. Few people had seen it up close."
4. noun Such a container together with whatever is inside it; the amount it holds.
   "It was dusk by the time Yandi reappeared, carrying a calabash of parboiled rice and a peanut and chili sauce on his head."

calabash in a sentence

• Saje put the calabash in the king's hands. There was a hush from the crowd. The calabash was large and painted with beautiful designs. Few people had seen it up close.
• It was dusk by the time Yandi reappeared, carrying a calabash of parboiled rice and a peanut and chili sauce on his head.
• Amuta and the twelve-year-old have produced calabashes of palm wine and are busy pouring out healthy drams into the cupped hands of black and white alike.

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