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What is a calabash?

What is a calabash? Here are some definitions.

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, Lagenaria siceraria.
    1. (originally) The fruit of such a vine.
  2. A tree grown for its fruit, which can be harvested mature and dried, and used as a container. In particular, Crescentia cujete.
    1. The fruit of such a tree.
  3. A utensil traditionally made of the dried shell of a calabash and used as a bottle, dipper, utensil or pipe, etc.
    1. A musical instrument, most commonly a drum or rattle, made from a calabash.
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Across the street, the fat man sporting aviator shades and a floppy straw hat loitered behind a calabash tree perusing the Bermuda Sun.
Carved calabash or gourds are made into masks or filled with seeds to rattle as maracas.
At the funeral of Nanan Toto Kra, a Baoule Akan, Mossi men dance with calabash rattles.
One of the commonest African names for the xylophone, usually with calabash resonators.
A typical breakfast might consist of corn porridge eaten with a spoon made of a small, elongated calabash split in half.
Artists cast sculptures in bronze and brass, produce glass and metal work, and make quality leatherwork and calabash carvings.

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