Calabash (disambiguation)

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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.