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词汇 calabash
释义 calabash
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈkæl.ə.bæʃ/ us /ˈkæl.ə.bæʃ/
(a tropical plant which produces) a large fruit, the outside of which becomes hard when dried and can be used as a container(热带的)加拉巴木;葫芦
 
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Common plants
Examples from literature

One day I found several dry calabashes that had fallen from a tree. 
Some women came with calabashes for water, and I tried to buy the bead bangles and waist-lace off a baby child, but failed. 
The Admiral asked him for water, and they brought it gladly to the shore in calabashes. 
The root is chewed by women, and they spit out well-chewed mouthfuls into a calabash. 
Their instrument was a large calabash, or rather two, one of an oval shape about three feet high, the other perfectly round, very neatly fastened to it, having also an aperture about three inches in diameter at the top. 

Examples of calabash


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They cited as examples the iron pots and enamelled dishes that serve in place of the calabashes of olden days.
Buckets or small vessels such as calabashes collected the sap as it dripped.
This normally means that a calabash is used.
Food collected from the restaurant's kitchen during normal operation included mayonnaise, salad mix, calabash shrimp, flounder, chicken, shrimp salad, deli meat, hamburger, buttermilk and coleslaw.
Typically, calabash lutes have no more than two strings, while the wooden instruments generally have more.
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Pangi wraps and bowls made of calabashes are the two main products manufactured for tourists.
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It is played while in a halved calabash which amplifies the sound and distorts it using shells or bottle caps placed around the edges.
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Dried calabash is also used as containers of liquids, often liquors or medicine.
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In a "fixed-key" balafon, the keys are suspended by leather straps just above a wooden frame, under which are hung graduated-size calabash gourd resonators.
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The myth is performed mostly by a single bard wielding a calabash made into a rattle and donning various bells and other forms of noisemakers.
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He gave them two calabashes with the instructions never to open them.
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Mate is served with a metal straw from a shared hollow calabash gourd.
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The gyil is usually played in pairs, accompanied by a calabash gourd drum called a "kuor".
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The calabash is a gourd similar to a squash, grown specifically for use in pipes.
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Its soft, bland, somewhat mucilaginous flesh is similar to that of the luffa and the calabash.
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