calabash

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “There was a teacher who taught children to read under a calabash tree, and this teacher's name was Goso.”

2. isim The bottle gourd (calabash vine, Lagenaria siceraria), believed to have originated in Africa, which is grown for its fruit that are used as a vegetable and to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this plant.

   “CALABASH GOURD (LAGENARIA SICERARIA) […] Appropriately bowing to AHP, the American Herbal Products Association, for the betterment of the herbal industry, I will now use its standardized common name, Calabash Gourd, a vine, not to be confused with the Calabash tree (Crescentia).”

3. isim 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.

   “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. isim A calabash and its contents; as much as fills such a container.

   “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.”

5. isim A musical instrument, most commonly a drum or rattle, made from a calabash fruit.
6. isim The head.

   “‘What d’ye say about rewardin’ this yer young gent, as walloped his chum on the callybash to help us?’ Ben called after them.”