calabash — Essentially, a calabash is a bottle-shaped gourd, or the tree that bears that gourd, or the utensils you can make from such a gourd, or . . . well, there are a variety of meanings for this word
calabaza — this is the Spanish word for “pumpkin” but it’s also the word for “squash” and for “gourd”
We derived the English word from the Spanish word,…
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