CALABARINE
Cal"a*bar*ine, n. (Chem.)
Defn: An alkaloid resembing physostigmine and occurring with it in the calabar bean.
CALABASH
Cal"a*bash, n. Etym: [Sp. calabaza, or Pg. calaba, caba (cf. F.
Calebasse), lit., a dry gourd, fr. Ar. qar', fem., a kind of gourd +
aibas dry.]
1. The common gourd (plant or fruit).
2. The fruit of the calabash tree.
3. A water dipper, bottle, backet, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd. Calabash tree. (Bot.), a tree of tropical America (Crescentia cujete), producing a large gourdike fruit, containing a purgative pulp. Its hard shell, after the removal of the pulp, is used for cups, bottles, etc. The African calabash tree is the baobab.
CALABOOSE
Cal`a*boose", n. Etym: [A corruption of Sp. calabozo dungeon.]
Defn: A prison; a jail. [Local, U. S.]
CALABOZO
Ca`la*bo"zo, n. [Sp.]
Defn: A jail. See Calaboose.