<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Any of various gourds, especially the bottle gourd, <em>Lagenaria siceraria</em>.</li><li>A tropical American tree, <em>Crescentia cujete</em>, of the bignonia family, bearing large, gourdlike fruit.</li><li>Any of several other plants having gourdlike fruit.</li><li>The fruit of any of these plants.</li><li>The dried, hollowed-out shell of any of these fruits, used as a container or utensil.</li><li>A bottle, kettle, ladle, etc., made from such a shell.</li><li>A tobacco pipe with a large bowl made from a calabash and usually having a curved stem.</li><li>A gourd used as a rattle, drum, etc.</li></ul>