Color Names

Calabash Clash

Dusty grey-green of a dried calabash, hollow and rough to the touch.

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Calabash Clash is a cool grey, close to green.

It can be described as cool, muted, greyish and dusty.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Calabash Clash

Calabash

Calabash, also known as bottle gourd, white-flowered gourd, long melon, birdhouse gourd, New Guinea bean, New Guinea butter bean or Tasmania bean, is a vine which is grown for its fruit. It belongs to the family Cucurbitaceae, is native to tropical Africa, and cultivated across the tropics. It can be either harvested young to be consumed as a vegetable, or harvested mature to be dried and used as a kitchen utensil, beverage container or a musical instrument. When it is fresh, the fruit has a light green smooth skin and white flesh.

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calabash

Noun

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
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clash

Noun

  1. A loud sound, like the crashing together of metal objects; a crash.
  2. A skirmish, a hostile encounter.

Verb

  1. To make a clashing sound.
  2. To cause to make a clashing sound.
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