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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "calabash" in a sentence

    calabash example sentences

    calabash


    1. ’ Seb paused to drink from a calabash


    2. CALABASH” SIGN OFF LINE, IT’S SO WARM AND FAMILIAR BUT STILL ONLY FANTASY


    3. Not familiar with a bottle gourd? How about it's other names – calabash, opo


    4. The calabash, as a vegetable, is frequently used in Asian cuisine as either a stir-fry or in a soup


    5. As I knelt down in front of my Dad, he handed me a calabash cup filled with palm wine, and directed me to locate my would-be husband, whoever he is, and wherever he may be


    6. The chamberfruit—a native Safeholdian plant similar to Old Terra’s calabash gourd—had been carefully shaped while it grew, then carved and further shaped to receive its foamstone bowl


    7. Chamberfruit—a native Safeholdian plant similar to a terrestrial calabash gourd


    8. The people of his island of Rokovoko, it seems, at their wedding feasts express the fragrant water of young cocoanuts into a large stained calabash like a punchbowl; and this punchbowl always forms the great central ornament on the braided mat where the feast is held


    9. But nothing about that thing that happened to him off Cape Horn, long ago, when he lay like dead for three days and nights; nothing about that deadly skrimmage with the Spaniard afore the altar in Santa?—heard nothing about that, eh? Nothing about the silver calabash he spat into? And nothing about his losing his leg last voyage, according to the prophecy


    10. This circumstance, coupled with his ambiguous, half-hinting, half-revealing, shrouded sort of talk, now begat in me all kinds of vague wonderments and half-apprehensions, and all connected with the Pequod; and Captain Ahab; and the leg he had lost; and the Cape Horn fit; and the silver calabash; and what Captain Peleg had said of him, when I left the ship the day previous; and the prediction of the squaw Tistig; and the voyage we had bound ourselves to sail; and a hundred other shadowy things

    11. The spoons did not hold enough, they said; the food rolled off the knife in their unsteady hands, and the fork was like putting water in a fish-net instead of a calabash


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    Synonyms for "calabash"

    calabash calabash pipe gourd bottle gourd lagenaria siceraria calabash tree crescentia cujete

    "calabash" definitions

    round gourd of the calabash tree


    tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds


    Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits


    bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd


    a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd