CALABASH

Calabash

The calabash, Lagenaria siceraria, also known as opo squash, bottle gourd or long melon is 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 bottle, utensil, or pipe. The fresh fruit has a light green smooth skin and a white flesh. Rounder varieties are called calabash gourds. They come in a variety of shapes, they can be huge and rounded, or small and bottle shaped, or slim and serpentine, more than a metre long.

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calabash

Noun

  1. A vine grown for its fruit, which can be harvested young and used as a vegetable, or harvested mature, dried and used as a container, like a gourd. In particular, .
  2. The fruit of such a vine.
  3. 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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