lagenaria vulgaris

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lagenaria vulgaris - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Gourd \Gourd\, n. [F. gourde, OF. cougourde, gouhourde, fr. L.
     cucurbita gourd (cf. NPr. cougourdo); perh. akin to corbin
     basket, E. corb. Cf. Cucurbite.]
     1. (Bot.) A fleshy, three-celled, many-seeded fruit, as the
        melon, pumpkin, cucumber, etc., of the order
        Cucurbitace[ae]; and especially the bottle gourd
        (Lagenaria vulgaris) which occurs in a great variety of
        forms, and, when the interior part is removed, serves for
        bottles, dippers, cups, and other dishes.
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     2. A dipper or other vessel made from the shell of a gourd;
        hence, a drinking vessel; a bottle. --Chaucer.
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     Bitter gourd, colocynth.
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  Hercules'-club \Hercules'-club\, Hercules'-club
  \Hercules'-club\, Hercules-club \Hercules-club\prop. n.
     1. (Bot.) A densely spiny ornamental tree (Zanthoxylum  clava-herculis
        ) of the rue family, growing in southeast
        U. S. and West Indies. [WordNet sense 1]
  
     Note: It belongs to the same genus as one of the trees
           (Zanthoxylum Americanum) called prickly ash.
  
     Syn: Hercules'-clubs, Hercules-club, Zanthoxylum   clava-herculis
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     2. A small, prickly, deciduous clump-forming tree or shrub
        (Aralia spinosa) of eastern U.S.; also called Angelica  tree
         and prickly ash. [WordNet sense 2]
  
     Syn: American angelica tree, devil's walking stick, Aralia   spinosa
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     3. A variety of the common gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris). Its
        fruit sometimes exceeds five feet in length.
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  Bottle \Bot"tle\, n. [OE. bote, botelle, OF. botel, bouteille,
     F. bouteille, fr. LL. buticula, dim. of butis, buttis, butta,
     flask. Cf. Butt a cask.]
     1. A hollow vessel, usually of glass or earthenware (but
        formerly of leather), with a narrow neck or mouth, for
        holding liquids.
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     2. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains;
        as, to drink a bottle of wine.
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     3. Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in
        the bottle.
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     Note: Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part
           of a compound.
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     Bottle ale, bottled ale. [Obs.] --Shak.
  
     Bottle brush, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the
        interior of bottles.
  
     Bottle fish (Zool.), a kind of deep-sea eel (Saccopharynx  ampullaceus
        ), remarkable for its baglike gullet, which
        enables it to swallow fishes two or three times its won
        size.
  
     Bottle flower. (Bot.) Same as Bluebottle.
  
     Bottle glass, a coarse, green glass, used in the
        manufacture of bottles. --Ure.
  
     Bottle gourd (Bot.), the common gourd or calabash
        (Lagenaria Vulgaris), whose shell is used for bottles,
        dippers, etc.
  
     Bottle grass (Bot.), a nutritious fodder grass (Setaria  glauca
         and Setaria viridis); -- called also foxtail,
        and green foxtail.
  
     Bottle tit (Zool.), the European long-tailed titmouse; --
        so called from the shape of its nest.
  
     Bottle tree (Bot.), an Australian tree (Sterculia  rupestris
        ), with a bottle-shaped, or greatly swollen,
        trunk.
  
     Feeding bottle, Nursing bottle, a bottle with a rubber
        nipple (generally with an intervening tube), used in
        feeding infants.
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