hercules : Idioms & Phrases

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Hercules powder

  • an explosive containing nitroglycerin; used for blasting.
Webster 1913

Hercules' beetle

  • (Zoöl.), any species of Dynastes, an American genus of very large lamellicorn beetles, esp. D. hercules of South America, which grows to a length of six inches.
Webster 1913

Hercules' club

  • . (Bot.) (a) An ornamental tree of the West Indies (Zanthoxylum Clava-Herculis), of the same genus with the prickly ash. (b) A variety of the common gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris). Its fruit sometimes exceeds five feet in length. (c) The Angelica tree. See under Angelica.
Webster 1913

hercules'-club

  • noun densely spiny ornamental of southeastern United States and West Indies
    Zanthoxylum clava-herculis; Hercules'-club; Hercules'-clubs.
  • noun small deciduous clump-forming tree or shrub of eastern United States
    Aralia spinosa; Hercules'-club; devil's walking stick; American angelica tree.
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hercules'-clubs

  • noun densely spiny ornamental of southeastern United States and West Indies
    Zanthoxylum clava-herculis; Hercules'-club; Hercules'-clubs.
  • noun small deciduous clump-forming tree or shrub of eastern United States
    Aralia spinosa; Hercules'-club; devil's walking stick; American angelica tree.
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hercules-club

  • noun densely spiny ornamental of southeastern United States and West Indies
    Zanthoxylum clava-herculis; Hercules'-club; Hercules'-clubs.
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pillars of hercules

  • noun the two promontories at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar; according to legend they were formed by Hercules
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