different between bottlegourd vs calabash

English

Etymology

From French calebasse, from Spanish calabaza (“gourd; pumpkin”), possibly from Arabic ???????? ?????????? (qar?atun y?bisatun, “dry gourd”) or directly from its etymon Persian ?????? (xarboze, “melon”), possibly ultimately from Sanskrit ?????? (trapusa, “colocynth fruit”) (compare Persian ?????? (tarboze, “watermelon”)). The English word is cognate with Catalan carabassa (“pumpkin; orange colour”), Galician cabaza (“gourd, pumpkin, squash; calabash (container)”), Occitan calebasso, carabasso, carbasso, Portuguese cabaça (“gourd; calabash (container)”), Sicilian caravazza.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kal?ba?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæl??bæ?/
• Hyphenation: ca?la?bash

Noun

calabash (plural calabashes)

1. A tree (known as the calabash tree; Crescentia cujete) native to Central and South America, the West Indies, and southern Florida, bearing large, round fruit used to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this tree.
2. The bottle gourd (calabash vine, Lagenaria siceraria), believed to have originated in Africa, which is grown for its fruit that are used as a vegetable and to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this plant.

   Synonyms: (India) dudhi, (India) lauki
3. A container made from the mature, dried shell of the fruit of one of the above plants; also, a similarly shaped container made from some other material.
4. A calabash and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
5. (music) A musical instrument, most commonly a drum or rattle, made from a calabash fruit.

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Further reading

• calabash (Lagenaria siceraria) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Crescentia cujete on Wikipedia.Wikipedia