calabash

Other forms of calabash

plural

calabashes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about calabash

What does calabash mean?

calabash means "round gourd of the calabash tree". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in calabash?

calabash has 3 syllables and divides as ca-la-bash under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for calabash?

Close synonyms include calabash tree, Crescentia cujete, bottle gourd, Lagenaria siceraria, gourd. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calabash a common word?

calabash is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.