Calabash tree
crescentia cujete latin

Now this was a calabash tree, which had never borne fruit.

The first mates were simple gourds from the calabash tree.

Underneath another calabash tree, too, in the shade.

It shares its common name with that of the calabash tree (Crescentia cujete).

About a quarter of the way up the saddle, just off to one side, we found a trench on a flat bit under a calabash tree.

They are killed; Hun Hunahpú's head is placed in a calabash tree.

So when she heard the story of the fruit of the calabash tree from her father, she was amazed and intrigued.

Then One Hunahpu's head was put in the crotch of a calabash tree, which had never before borne fruit.

They had seen the maiden's footprints near the calabash tree, and understood how such an event might occur, for there had been precedents elsewhere.

The doctor immediately recognized that immense clearing, ten miles in extent, with its villages buried in the midst of baobab and calabash trees.

The calabash tree is important to the Embera, who scoop out the tree's gourds for cups and bowls, as well as spoons.

On the way back through Walsingham Glade, only the stump remains of a calabash tree that was a victim of the hurricane.

Beyond this was a second river, which flowed among many thorny calabash trees, and they had to walk carefully lest they get hurt by the thorns.

After the Under Lords decapitated him, they left his head in the crook of a calabash tree to keep trespassers away from Xibalba.

Using trickery and deceit, they defeated the brothers and decapitated them, hanging Hun Hunahpu's head in the crook of a calabash tree.

It was begotten when I went to marvel at the wonderful calabash tree with its sudden fruit, and communed with the severed head of One-Hunter.

The area was largely populated by Crescentia cujete (Calabash trees) colloquially known as Calabazos or Totumos.

Crescentia cujete, commonly known as the Calabash Tree, is species of flowering plant that is native to Central and South America.

Moreover, the tree with the suspended trophy head in it is not a calabash tree, as in the Popol Vuh, but a personified cacao tree.

The stoppage was made in sight of the village of Coary, a dozen houses, considerably dilapidated, built I the midst of a thick mass of orange and calabash trees.

Albania (previously known as Calabacito from the Spanish meaning Small Calabash tree) is a town and municipality of the Colombian Department of La Guajira.

Blood Woman refused to tell her father how the child came to be in her womb, since it was forbidden to go to the calabash tree where One Hunahpu's head had been perched.

As we came downhill the trees changed; we passed through a long grove of calabash trees, and down towards the river whole thickets of mangoes, their fruit dangling disturbingly from long green cords.

The gourds, which we mistook for coconut shells, grow on the calabash trees brought centuries ago from Africa to Jamaica; their use by Rastafarians is one more link to their past and to the natural world.

In the account told by the Popol Vuh, Xquic went to investigate a calabash tree where the Lords of Xibalba had displayed the severed head of Hun Hunahpu, whom they had sacrificed.

It shares its common name with that of the calabash tree (Crescentia cujete).

The area was largely populated by Crescentia cujete (Calabash trees) colloquially known as Calabazos or Totumos.

The fifth sun is identified with Tonatiuh, Nanahuatzin was the youngest of three boys and a girl named "Xochit Sihuat" who had emerged from the fruit of the gourd-tree (Crescentia cujete), which in turn had grown from the head of a woman that had flown into the night while her body slept.