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Definition of Bottle gourd
1. Noun. Old World climbing plant with hard-shelled bottle-shaped gourds as fruits.
Generic synonyms: Gourd, Gourd Vine
Group relationships: Genus Lagenaria, Lagenaria
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bottle Gourd
Literary usage of Bottle gourd
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Various forms of bottle gourd, there being free instead of ... adl*7'- The
bottle-gourd properly so-called, L. РШ- garis, is a climbing plant with downy, ..."
2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The bottle-gourd Saris, is a climbing plant with downy, heart-shaped leaves and
beautiful white flowers: the remarkable fruit (figs. ..."
3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1859)
"Recently Minton has produced a graceful copy of the bottle-gourd, ... From clay
the transition is ready to glass, in which the bottle-gourd, either at first ..."
4. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1859)
"Recently Minton has produced a graceful copy of the bottle-gourd, ... From clay
the transition is ready to glass, in which the bottle-gourd, either at first ..."
5. The Horticulturist; Or, An Attempt to Teach the Science and Practice of the by John Claudius Loudon, Loudon (Jane) (1849)
"The bottle gourd is at first long and cylindrical, like a cucumber, but as it
ripens, it swells chiefly at the upper end, thus acquiring the form of a ..."
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