This section is from the book "The Home Cyclopedia Of General Information", by Charles Morris. Also available from Amazon: Home Cyclopedia of Necessary Knowledge.
The family of plants which includes the pumpkin, squash, melon, cucumber, etc. The bottle or calabash gourd, growing wild in Asia and Africa, bears a fruit like a water-bottle, whose rind is very hard when dry. It is used for bottles, dippers, and other purposes.
 
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