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A variety of the common gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris). Its fruit sometimes exceeds five feet in length. (c) The Angelica tree. See under Angelica. -- Hercules powder, an explosive containing nitroglycerin; -- used for blasting.

In this. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit. John xv. 8.

A glucoside found in ripe and unripe fruit (as the orange), and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

ing six carbon atoms in the molecule. Some are widely distributed in nature, esp. in ripe fruits.

The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina). [Written also hop, hep.] Hip tree (Bot.), the dog- rose.

g plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops).

Occurring once an hour; continuing an hour; hourly; ephemeral. Horary, or soon decaying, fruits of summer. Sir T. Browne. Horary circles. See Circles.

The cornucopia, or horn of plenty. See Cornucopia. "Fruits and flowers from Amalthæa's horn." Milton.

l varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven, or even larger. They feed chiefly upon fruit, but some species eat dead animals.

ardening), a wall provided with flues for the conducting of heat, to hasten the growth of fruit trees or the ripening of fruit. -- Hot well (Condensing Engines), a receptacle for the hot water drawn from the condenser by the air pump. This water is returned to the boiler, being drawn from the hot well by the feed pump…

rubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened.

The edible black or dark blue fruit of several species of the American genus Gaylussacia, shrubs nearly related to the blueberries (Vaccinium), and formerly confused with them. The commonest huckelberry comes from G. resinosa.

The external covering or envelope of certain fruits or seeds; glume; hull; rind; in the United States, especially applied to the covering of the ears of maize.

uminous plant (Dolichos Lablab), related to the true bean. It has dark purple flowers and fruit.

A fruit consisting in large part of a receptacle, enlarged below the calyx, as in the alycanthus, the rose hip, and the pear.

A fleshy enlargement of the receptacle, or for the stem, below the proper fruit, as in the cashew. See Illust. of Cashew.

Producing fruit below the ground.

An astringent inspissated juice obtained from the fruit of a plant (Cytinus hypocistis), growing from the roots of the Cistus, a small European shrub.

Growing under ground; remaining under ground; ripening its fruit under ground. [Written also hypogæous.]

Being or growing on the under side of a leaf, as the fruit dots of ferns.