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A Gregorii
Adansonia Ad`an*so"ni*a, n. [From Adanson, a French botanist.] (Bot.) A genus of great trees related to the Bombax. There are two species, A. digitata, the baobab or monkey-bread of Africa and India, and A. Gregorii, the sour gourd or cream-of-tartar tree of Australia. Both have a trunk of moderate height, but of enormous diameter, and a wide-spreading head. The fruit is oblong, and filled with pleasantly acid pulp. The wood is very soft, and the bark is used by the natives for making ropes and cloth. --D. C. Eaton.
Adansonia Gregorii
Sour Sour, a. [Compar. Sourer; superl. Sourest.] [OE. sour, sur, AS. s?r; akin to D. zuur, G. sauer, OHG. s?r, Icel. s?rr, Sw. sur, Dan. suur, Lith. suras salt, Russ. surovui harsh, rough. Cf. Sorrel, the plant.] 1. Having an acid or sharp, biting taste, like vinegar, and the juices of most unripe fruits; acid; tart. All sour things, as vinegar, provoke appetite. --Bacon. 2. Changed, as by keeping, so as to be acid, rancid, or musty, turned. 3. Disagreeable; unpleasant; hence; cross; crabbed; peevish; morose; as, a man of a sour temper; a sour reply. ``A sour countenance.' --Swift. He was a scholar . . . Lofty and sour to them that loved him not, But to those men that sought him sweet as summer. --Shak. 4. Afflictive; painful. ``Sour adversity.' --Shak. 5. Cold and unproductive; as, sour land; a sour marsh. Sour dock (Bot.), sorrel. Sour gourd (Bot.), the gourdlike fruit Adansonia Gregorii, and A. digitata; also, either of the trees bearing this fruit. See Adansonia. Sour grapes. See under Grape. Sour gum (Bot.) See Turelo. Sour plum (Bot.), the edible acid fruit of an Australian tree (Owenia venosa); also, the tree itself, which furnished a hard reddish wood used by wheelwrights. Syn: Acid; sharp; tart; acetous; acetose; harsh; acrimonious; crabbed; currish; peevish.

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- Vexillum gorii is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters. Vexillum gorii is about 18 mm...
- Thala gorii is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Costellariidae, the ribbed miters. The length of the s**** attains...
- Muricopsis gorii is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the rock snails. This species was first described...
- Leucorhynchia gorii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Skeneidae. Leucorhynchia is a genus of snails in the family Skeneidae...
- Pterygia gorii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miters or miter snails. Turner (2007). Contributions...
- Cystiscus gorii is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Cystiscidae. Boyer, F. (2018). "Révision...
- leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus gorii) is a species of gecko. It is endemic to the Galapagos Islands. Phyllodactylus gorii at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database...
- synonym of Mitra deprofundis H. Turner, 2001 Tiarella gorii (Turner, 2007) : synonym of Pterygia gorii (H. Turner, 2007) Tiarella papalis (Linnaeus, 1758):...
- gecko (Phyllodactylus darwini) Española leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus gorii) Galapagos leaf-toed gecko (Phyllodactylus galapagensis) Wenman Island gecko...
- (Indonesia and Borneo) Lebioderus dissimilis Luna de Carvalho, 1973 Lebioderus gorii Westwood, 1838 (Indonesia) Lebioderus jav**** C.A.Dohrn, 1891 (Indonesia)...