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crescentia (wn) | Crescentia
n 1: a genus of tropical American trees of the family
Bignoniaceae; has a short trunk and crooked limbs and
drooping branches [syn: Crescentia, genus Crescentia] |
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Crescentia Cujete (gcide) | Gourd tree \Gourd" tree"\ (Bot.)
A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the
West Indies and Central America.
[1913 Webster]Calabash \Cal"a*bash\ (k[a^]l"[.a]*b[a^]sh), n. [Sp. calabaza,
or Pg. calaba[,c]a, caba[,c]a (cf. F. Calebasse), lit., a dry
gourd, fr. Ar. qar', fem., a kind of gourd + aibas dry.]
1. The common gourd (plant or fruit).
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2. The fruit of the calabash tree.
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3. A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made
from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.
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Calabash tree. (Bot.), a tree of tropical America
(Crescentia cujete), producing a large gourdlike fruit,
containing a purgative pulp. Its hard shell, after the
removal of the pulp, is used for cups, bottles, etc. The
African calabash tree is the baobab.
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Crescentia cujete (gcide) | Gourd tree \Gourd" tree"\ (Bot.)
A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the
West Indies and Central America.
[1913 Webster]Calabash \Cal"a*bash\ (k[a^]l"[.a]*b[a^]sh), n. [Sp. calabaza,
or Pg. calaba[,c]a, caba[,c]a (cf. F. Calebasse), lit., a dry
gourd, fr. Ar. qar', fem., a kind of gourd + aibas dry.]
1. The common gourd (plant or fruit).
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2. The fruit of the calabash tree.
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3. A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made
from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.
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Calabash tree. (Bot.), a tree of tropical America
(Crescentia cujete), producing a large gourdlike fruit,
containing a purgative pulp. Its hard shell, after the
removal of the pulp, is used for cups, bottles, etc. The
African calabash tree is the baobab.
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Excrescential (gcide) | Excrescential \Ex`cres*cen"tial\a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence. [R.]
--Hawthorne.
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crescentia (wn) | Crescentia
n 1: a genus of tropical American trees of the family
Bignoniaceae; has a short trunk and crooked limbs and
drooping branches [syn: Crescentia, genus Crescentia] |
crescentia cujete (wn) | Crescentia cujete
n 1: tropical American evergreen that produces large round
gourds [syn: calabash, calabash tree, {Crescentia
cujete}] |
genus crescentia (wn) | genus Crescentia
n 1: a genus of tropical American trees of the family
Bignoniaceae; has a short trunk and crooked limbs and
drooping branches [syn: Crescentia, genus Crescentia] |
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