'Lagenaria Vulgaris' definitions:

Definition of 'Lagenaria Vulgaris'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains; as, to drink a bottle of wine. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Lagenaria vulgaris'

From: GCIDE
  • 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}. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
  • 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}. [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
  • 3. A variety of the common gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris). Its fruit sometimes exceeds five feet in length. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Lagenaria vulgaris'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A dipper or other vessel made from the shell of a gourd; hence, a drinking vessel; a bottle. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • Bitter gourd, colocynth. [1913 Webster]