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CALABASH TREE

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 963 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CALABASH (from the Span. calabaza, a gourd or pumpkin, possibly derived from the Pers. kharlunza, a melon)

CALABASH See also:
TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
TREE , a native of the See also:

West Indies and See also:

South See also:

AMERICA

America, known botanically as Crescentia Cujete (natural See also:

order, Bignoniaceae) . The See also:

FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit resembles a See also:

GOURD

gourd, and has a woody rind, which after removal of the pulp forms a See also:

CALABASH (from the Span. calabaza, a gourd or pumpkin, possibly derived from the Pers. kharlunza, a melon)

calabash .

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