Calabash vs. Pumpkin — What's the Difference?

Calabash (Lagenaria siceraria), also known as bottle gourd, white-flowered gourd, long melon, birdhouse gourd, New Guinea bean and Tasmania bean, is a vine grown for its fruit. It can be either harvested young to be consumed as a vegetable, or harvested mature to be dried and used as a utensil, container, or a musical instrument.

A pumpkin is a cultivar of winter squash that is round with smooth, slightly ribbed skin, and is most often deep yellow to orange in coloration. The thick shell contains the seeds and pulp.

An evergreen tropical American tree which bears fruit in the form of large woody gourds.

A round, often large squash with coarse, strongly flavored yellow to orange flesh, numerous seeds, and a moderately hard, usually orange rind.

See bottle gourd.

Any of several plants producing these fruits, especially varieties of the species Cucurbita pepo, and also varieties of C. maxima and C. moschata.

A tropical American tree (Crescentia cujete) bearing hard-shelled, gourdlike fruits on the trunk and main branches. Also called calabash tree.

A moderate to strong orange.

The fruit of either of these or related plants.

A domesticated plant, in species Cucurbita pepo, similar in growth pattern, foliage, flower, and fruit to the squash or melon.

A utensil, container, or musical instrument made from the dried, hollowed-out shell of these fruits.

The round yellow or orange fruit of this plant.

A smoking pipe with a curved stem and a large bowl made from the shell of a gourd.

(uncountable) The color of the fruit of the pumpkin plant.

A tree (known as the calabash tree; Crescentia cujete) native to Central and South America, the West Indies, and southern Florida, bearing large, round fruit used to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this tree.

(Australia) Any of a number of cultivars from the genus Cucurbita; known in the US as winter squash.

The bottle gourd (calabash vine, Lagenaria siceraria), believed to have originated in Africa, which is grown for its fruit that are used as a vegetable and to make containers (sense 3); the fruit of this plant.

(US) A term of endearment for someone small and cute.

A container made from the mature, dried shell of the fruit of one of the above plants; also, a similarly shaped container made from some other material.

A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, - used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion.

A calabash and its contents; as much as fills such a container.

A coarse vine widely cultivated for its non-keeping large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes

(musical instrument) A musical instrument, most commonly a drum or rattle, made from a calabash fruit.

Usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn

The common gourd (plant or fruit).

The fruit of the calabash tree.

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

Round gourd of the calabash tree

Tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds

Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits

Bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd

A pipe for smoking; has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd