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A flat sea-urchin; a sand-dollar; a clypeastrid, as one of the genus Ech in a rach nius or Mellita. Mellita Cake-urchin ( Echinarachnius quin que for a and Echina parma ). Calabar bean. See bean1. cal a bar in, calabarine (kal-a-bär'in), n. Calabar (bean) + in2, -inc2; NL. cal a bar in a.] An alkaloid obtained from the Calabar bean by insoluble in ether, and differs in physiological Harnock and Witkowski in 1876. character from physostigmin. calabar-skin (kal'a-bär-skin), n. The name given in commerce to the skin of the Siberian squirrel, used for making muffs, tippets, etc. calabash (kal'a-bash), n. [Prob., through F. caleba e, same way. Such ve els are often decorated with conventional patterns and figures made in very slight relief by scraping away the surface surrounding them, and are sometimes stained in variegated colors. Calabashes. She had an ornamented calabash to hold her castor-oil, from which she made a fresh toilette every time she swam acro the Nile.. Curzon, Monast, in the Levant, p. 139. 3. A popular name of the gourd-plant, Lage naria vulgar is.-4. A name given to the red cap or tarboosh of Tunis. See tarboosh and fez. -Sweet calabash, the name in the West Indies of the edible fruit of Pa iflora mali form is.