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Calabash tree. (Bot.), a tree of
tropical America (Crescentia cujete), producing a large
gourdlike 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.

Cal`a*boose" (?), n. [A corruption
of Sp. calabozo dungeon.] A prison; a jail.
[Local, U. S.]

||Ca*lade" (?), n. [F.] A
slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made
to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches.

||Ca*la"di*um (?), n. [NL.] A
genus of aroideous plants, of which some species are cultivated
for their immense leaves (which are often curiously blotched with
white and red), and others (in Polynesia) for food.

Cal"a*ite (kăl`&asl;*īt),
n. [L. callaïs, Gr.
ka`lai:s, ka`llai:s; cf. F.
calaïte.] A mineral. See
Turquoise.

Cal`a*man"co
(kăl`&adot;*mă&nsm;"k&osl;), n.
[LL. calamancus, calamacus; cf. camelaucum;
a head covering made of camel's hair, NGr.
kamelay`kion, and F.


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