olla

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Southwestern US A rounded earthenware pot or jar, used especially for cooking or for carrying water.
• noun An olla podrida.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun In Spanish countries, an earthen jar or pot used for cooking and other purposes, or a dish of meat and vegetables cooked in such a jar.
• noun An olio.
• noun A large porous earthenware jar or jug in universal use in the southwestern parts of the United States and Territories for holding drinking-water, which is kept cool by the evaporation of moisture through the substance of the jar.
• noun In archaeology, a form of vase more properly called stamnos.
• noun A favorite Spanish dish consisting of a mixture of all kinds of meat, cut into small pieces and stewed, with various kinds of vegetables.
• noun Hence— Any incongruous mixture or miscellaneous collection.
• noun Same as ola, olay.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A pot or jar having a wide mouth; a cinerary urn, especially one of baked clay.
• noun A dish of stewed meat; an olio; an olla-podrida.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun a cooking-pot or earthenware jar used in Spain and Spanish-speaking countries
• noun A pot used for cooling water by evaporation in Latin America.
• noun A cinerary urn in ancient Rome.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun leaf or strip from a leaf of the talipot palm used in India for writing paper