CALABASH TREE

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Meaning:

Tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds

Synonyms:

calabash; calabash tree; Crescentia cujete

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("calabash tree" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Holonyms ("calabash tree" is a member of...):

Crescentia; genus Crescentia (a genus of tropical American trees of the family Bignoniaceae; has a short trunk and crooked limbs and drooping branches)

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