calabash

calabash englannista suomeksi

1. kalebassi

0. Substantiivi

1. kalebassi, pullokurpitsa

2. pullokurpitsa

3. kalebassi

calabash englanniksi

1. A tree (known as the tree; (taxfmt)) native to America|Central and America, the Indies, and southern Florida, bearing large, round fruit used to make containers ''(sense 3)''; the fruit of this tree.

2. (quote-book); Aimé Bonpland|chapter=XXI|translator=Helen Maria Williams|title=Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent, during the Years 1799–1804. ... Written in French(nb...), and Translated into English(nb...)|location=London|publisher=Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown,(nb...)|year=1821|volume=V|section=book VII|page=129|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=vD0UAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA129|oclc=861227170|passage=As we were absolutely destitute of large vessels, to contain and mix liquids, we poured, by means of a ''tutuma'' (fruit of ''crescentia cujete'', calabash), the water of the river into one of the holes of the rock. To this we added sugar, and the juice of acid fruits. In a few minutes we had an excellent beverage, which was almost a refinement of luxury in that wild spot; (..)

3. (quote-book)|year=1870|page=287|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=KCBKAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA287|oclc=250333102|passage=There was a teacher who taught children to read under a calabash tree, and this teacher's name was Goso.

4. The gourd (vine, (taxfmt)), 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.

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5. (quote-journal)|month=January|year=1839|page=75|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=AAcbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA75|oclc=740304389|passage=The calabash, is a kind of gourd, and belongs to that family of twining plants which were called among the Hebrews, "wild vines," but by the botanists of modern times, the ''cucurbitaceæ'', or cucurbitaceous plants. (..) That playful variety of form and magnitude, so remarkable in the calabash, renders it fit for all kinds of uses. Sometimes we have a globular base, terminating in a long neck, and then it answers the purpose of a bottle, and the American fastens it to his girdle, or the pommel of his saddle, when about to pass through regions which abound not in water.

6. (quote-book) Appropriately bowing to AHP, the (w), for the betterment of the herbal industry, I will now use its standardized common name, Calabash Gourd, a vine, not to be confused with the Calabash tree (Crescentia).

7. (quote-book) series|edition=2nd|location=Hoboken, N.J.|publisher=(publisher)|Wiley Publishing|year=2009|section=part II (Vegging Out)|page=167|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=1ANqvBDcKNIC&pg=PA167|isbn=978-0-470-49870-5|passage=Asian gourds grow like cucumbers (..) and feature strong flavors that are often used in Indian, Chinese, and Southeast Asian soups and stews. Some types to try in your garden include the bitter gourd and calabash gourd.

8. 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.

9. (RQ:Defoe Captain Singleton)

10. (quote-book)|title=Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed under the Direction and Patronage of the African Association, in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797.(nb...)|location=London|publisher=Printed by Bulmer (printer)|William Bulmer and Co. for the author; and sold by Nicol (bookseller)|George and William Nicol,(nb...)|year=1799|page=302|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/b28766982/page/302/mode/1up|oclc=883610022|passage=The manner of separating the gold from the sand, is very simple, and is frequently performed by the women in the middle of the town; for when the searchers return from the valleys in the evening, they commonly bring with them each a calabash or two of sand, to be washed by such of the females as remain at home.

11. (RQ:Melville Moby-Dick) &91;page 105&93; It seemed to me that he was dogging us, but with what intent I could not for the life of me imagine. This circumstance, coupled with his ambiguous, half-hinting, half-revealing, shrouded sort of talk, now begat in me all kinds of vague wonderments and half-apprehensions, and all connected with the Pequod; and Captain Ahab; and the leg he had lost; and the Cape Horn fit; and the silver calabash; (..)

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14. A calabash and its contents; as much as fills such a container.

15. A instrument, most commonly a drum or rattle, made from a calabash fruit.

16. (quote-book)|mainauthor=John Pinkerton|title=A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World;(nb...)|location=London|publisher=Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme,and Brown,(nb...); and & Davies|Cadell and Davies,(nb...)|year=1814|volume=XVI|page=245|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=NmIOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA245|oclc=156146323|passage=The inſtrument moſt in requeſt uſed by the Abundi, being the people of the kingdom of Angola, Matamba, and others, is the Marimba; it conſiſts of ſixteen calabaſhes orderly placed along the middle between two ſide-boards joined together, or a long frame, hanging about a man's neck with a thong. Over the mouths of the calabaſhes there are thin ſounding ſlips of red wood called Tanilla, a little above a ſpan long, which being beaten with two little ſticks, returns a ſound from the calabaſhes of ſeveral ſizes not unlike an organ.