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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. large tree of Queensland having cream-colored flowers blotched with red inside; sometimes placed in genus Sterculia;
[syn: Queensland bottletree, narrow-leaved bottletree, Brachychiton rupestris, Sterculia rupestris]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Sterculia rupestris n 1: large tree of Queensland having cream-colored flowers blotched with red inside; sometimes placed in genus Sterculia [syn: Queensland bottletree, narrow-leaved bottletree, Brachychiton rupestris, Sterculia rupestris]