Definition of Lagenaria

1. Noun. Bottle gourds.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Lagenaria

Laetare Sundays
Laetitia
Lafayette
Lafe
Laffer
Laffer curve
Laffite
Lafitte
Lafora's disease
Lafora body
Lafora body disease
Lag b'Omer
Lagarostrobus
Lagarostrobus colensoi
Lagarostrobus franklinii
Lagenaria (current term)
Lagenaria siceraria
Lagenophera
Lagerstroemia
Lagerstroemia indica
Lagerstroemia speciosa
Lagidium
Lagodon
Lagodon rhomboides
Lagopus
Lagopus scoticus
Lagorchestes
Lagos
Lagostomus
Lagostomus maximus

Literary usage of Lagenaria

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"Serpent or Snake (not Snake cucumber, which in a Cucumis), lagenaria vul- garis and Trichosanthes. Sponge, Luffa. Spoon, Lagenaria ..."

2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"The Gourd of history is probably Lagenaria. In the northern United States, the small, ... Pepo. Maté Gourd, small form of Vegetable Sponge, Lutta. Lagenaria ..."

3. A Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils: Comprising Both by William Theodore Brannt, Karl Schaedler (1896)
"The seed yields an oil known as colocynth oil. 6. Lagenaria vulgar is DC = Cucurbita lagenaria Linn., the gourd. 7. Luffa acutangula, Roxb. 8. ..."

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