calabash

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. An annual vine (Lagenaria siceraria) having white flowers and smooth, large, hard-shelled gourds. Also called bottle gourd, white-flowered gourd.
2. n. A tropical American tree (Crescentia cujete) bearing hard-shelled, gourdlike fruits on the trunk and main branches. Also called calabash tree.
3. n. Any of certain similar or related plants.
4. n. The fruit of any of these plants.
5. n. A utensil or container made from the dried, hollowed-out shell of any of these fruits.
6. n. A smoking pipe with a curved stem and a large bowl made from the shell of a gourd.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A fruit of the tree Crescentia Cujete hollowed out, dried, and used as a vessel to contain liquids. These shells are so close-grained and hard that when containing liquid they may be used several times as kettles upon the fire without injury.
2. n. A gourd of any kind used in the same way. Such vesselsare often decorated with conventional patterns and figures made in very slight relief by scraping away the surface surrounding them, and are sometimes stained in variegated colors.
3. n. A popular name of the gourd-plant, Lagenaria vulgaris.
4. n. A name given to the red cap or tarboosh of Tunis. See tarboosh and fez.
5. n. The head, with an implication of emptiness.

Wiktionary

1. n. 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 container, like a gourd.
2. n. originally That fruit
3. n. A utensil traditionally made of the dried shell of a calabash and used as a bottle, dipper, utensil or pipe, etc.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The common gourd (plant or fruit).
2. n. The fruit of the calabash tree.
3. n. A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. round gourd of the calabash tree
2. n. bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd
3. n. tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds
4. n. Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits
5. n. a pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd