luffa

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noun

1. 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:
dishcloth gourd, sponge gourd, rag gourd, strainer vine
• Hypernyms:
vine
• Hyponyms:
loofah, vegetable sponge, Luffa cylindrica, angled loofah, sing-kwa, Luffa acutangula
• Member Holonyms:
genus Luffa
• Part Meronyms:
loofa, loofah, loufah sponge
2. the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa;
used as a washing sponge or strainer
• Syn:
loofa, loofah, loufah sponge
• Hypernyms:
fiber, fibre
• Part Holonyms:
dishcloth gourd, sponge gourd, rag gourd, strainer vine