калаба́ш — meaning in English
kalabash
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English meaning
- calabash 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.
Senses
калаба́ш is used for these senses in English:
- calabash A container made from the mature, dried shell of the fruit of one of the above plants; also, a similarly shaped container made from some other material.
calabash — full definition
- 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.
- 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.
- noun A container made from the dried outer shell of this fruit, or something shaped like it made from another material.
- noun Such a container together with whatever is inside it; the amount it holds.
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