lagenaria vulgaris

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]

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]

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]