calabash
碗碟,肚脐眼,蠡口,肚脐带
Definitions
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- : any of various gourds, especially the bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria.
- : a tropical American tree, Crescentia cujete, of the bignonia family, bearing large, gourdlike fruit.
- : any of several other plants having gourdlike fruit.
- : the fruit of any of these plants.
- : the dried, hollowed-out shell of any of these fruits, used as a container or utensil.
- : a bottle, kettle, ladle, etc., made from such a shell.
- : a tobacco pipe with a large bowl made from a calabash and usually having a curved stem.
- : a gourd used as a rattle, drum, etc.
Examples
The woman who was the spokesperson held out a calabash, a hollowed out gourd traditionally used to hold the cutters' instruments.
The timing of Calabash, as everyone here seems to acknowledge, throws that debate into sharp relief.
It's in this spirit that Calabash surely puts the festival back into the term literary festival.
I handed him the calabash, and the liquor pleasing his palate, he drank it all off.
Of this a great calabash was brought in, and poured out into black bowls made of soft and porous clay.
The baobal is very distinct from the calabash-tree of America, with which it has been confounded by Father Labat.
A couple of spades, a trowel and a calabash were their only tools, but our adventurer was a knowing man, and "knowledge is power."
It is now no longer the head of the player that furnishes the resonance, but the substituted calabash.