Sentence:  The <WSD>calabash</WSD>, is a kind of gourd, and belongs to that family of twining plants which were called among the Hebrews, "wild vines," but by the botanists of modern times, the "cucurbitaceæ", or cucurbitaceous plants. [...] That playful variety of form and magnitude, so remarkable in the <WSD>calabash</WSD>, renders it fit for all kinds of uses. Sometimes we have a globular base, terminating in a long neck, and then it answers the purpose of a bottle, and the American fastens it to his girdle, or the pommel of his saddle, when about to pass through regions which abound not in water. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  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.