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How to pronounce “calabash”
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Pronunciation guide for calabash
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of calabash with real speech in context.
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- 3 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Chris Abani: On humanity
There is no palm wine, fish, salt, or calabash.
- Definition summary
- 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.
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How to pronounce calabash
Chris Abani: On humanity
There is no palm wine, fish, salt, or calabash.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “calabash”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- A calabash and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
- (music) A musical instrument, most commonly a drum or rattle, made from a calabash fruit.
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