Calabash (disambiguation)

Calabash may refer to:

Astronomy

• The Calabash Nebula, a nebula 1.4 light years long and located some 5,000 light years from Earth

Botany

• Lagenaria siceraria, a vine
• Crescentia cujete, a tree

Computing

• XML Calabash, a free implementation of XProc in Java.

Entertainment

• "Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are," the signoff phrase of entertainer Jimmy Durante (1893-1980); see Jimmy Durante#The Sorrow of Mrs. Calabash
• Calabash (hotel), Grenada

Food

• Calabash, a style of preparing seafood attributed to the town of Calabash, North Carolina

Money

• "Calabash," a common name for low-denomination paper money of Queensland, Australia, also known as "shinplaster" circulating widely in the frontier economies of the 19th century; see Shinplaster#Australia

Literature

• Calabash International Literary Festival, founded in Jamaica in 2001

Music

• Calabash Music, a record label
• Calabash (percussion), African percussion instrument made out of a calabash
• The Cabasa musical instrument, sometimes called a calabash

Places

• 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", the nickname for the Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg due to its resemblance.

Ships

• USS Calabash (SP-108), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission in 1917

Smoking

• 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.