The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word CALABASH
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result CALABASH
- Carriage circles a bay tree
- Shell ready to devour an experimental facility
- A centre for research into breadfruit
- Shell ready to take over an experimental facility
- Tree about to be planted by another tree outside a workplace
- Ready to accommodate a processing unit for vegetable
- A dog tucked into bread and fruit
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What does CALABASH mean?
CALABASH noun- 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.
- 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.
- A container made from the mature, dried shell of the fruit of one of the above plants; also, a similarly shaped container made from some other material.
- A calabash and its contents; as much as fills such a container.
- A musical instrument, most commonly a drum or rattle, made from a calabash fruit.