Calabash (disambiguation)

Calabash (disambiguation)

Calabash may refer to:
* Calabash, the vine "Lagenaria siceraria"
* Calabash pipe, a style of smoking pipe made from the gourd of the calabash vine which consists of a downward curve that ends with an upcurve where the tobacco is held
* The Calabash tree, the tree "Crescentia cujete"
* Calabash, North Carolina, a town in southeastern North Carolina and a style of preparing seafood that is attributed to that town.
* Calabash Bay, a region in Saint Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica
* The Calabash Nebula, a nebula 1.4 light years long and located some 5,000 light years from Earth
* "Calabash" or Shinplaster, a common name for low-denomination paper money of Queensland circulating widely in the frontier economies of the 19th century
* Jimmy Durante, who used to say "Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are" as his signoff phrase
* Calabash Music, a record label
* The Cabasa musical instrument is sometimes called a Calabash.


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