Calabash

[Little_Girl]

A water dipper, bottle, bascket, or other utensil, made
from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd.

[Luis Fok]

A large gourd.

[Zipporah Schumaker]

A variety of passion fruit native to Central America and the Caribbean. Shaped similar to an apple with a thin yellow-brown skin. In Southern cooking the term applies to breaded or battered fried fish.