| strainer vine 
 
 any of several tropical annual climbers having large yellow flowers and edible young fruits;
 grown commercially for the mature fruit's dried fibrous interior that is used as a sponge
 • Syn:
 luffa, dishcloth gourd, sponge gourd, rag gourd
 • Hypernyms:
 vine
 • Hyponyms:
 loofah, vegetable sponge, Luffa cylindrica, angled loofah, sing-kwa, Luffa acutangula
 • Member Holonyms:
 genus Luffa
 • Part Meronyms:
 loofa, loofah, luffa, loufah sponge
 
 
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