bottle tree 瓶子树
- The bottle tree, plump and leathery at its base, tapers to a sprout of twisting, hand-like little branches clutching bouquets of pink flowers.
圆鼓鼓的瓶树基部似皮革,向上逐渐变细,最后生出扭曲的细枝,形似手,紧紧抓着开出的一束束粉花。 - They took a couple of shots and then, because he didn't want Grant to show up potted before the immaculate Lee, he smashed the bottle against the tree.
因为他不想让格兰特醉醺醺地出现在衣冠整洁的李面前,所以他把酒瓶在树上摔个粉碎。 - The three divers danced round the tree and opened a bottle of champagne while underwater.
三名潜水员在水下围着树翩翩起舞,还开了一瓶香槟来庆祝。
bottle tree[ noun ]
an Australian tree of the genus Brachychiton
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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.
2. The contents of a bottle; as much as a bottle contains;
as, to drink a bottle of wine.
3. Fig.: Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in
the bottle.
Note: Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part
of a compound.
{Bottle ale}, bottled ale. [Obs.] --Shak.
{Bottle brush}, a cylindrical brush for cleansing the
interior of bottles.
{Bottle fish} (Zo["o]l.), 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} (Zo["o]l.), 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.