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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 See also:TREE , a native of the See also:West Indies and See also:South See also:America, known botanically as Crescentia Cujete (natural See also:order, Bignoniaceae). The See also:fruit resembles a See also:gourd, and has a woody rind, which after removal of the pulp forms a calabash.

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