sponge gourd

sponge gourd
noun
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
Hypernyms: ↑vine
Member Holonyms: ↑genus Luffa
Part Meronyms: ↑loofa, ↑loofah, ↑luffa, ↑loufah sponge

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noun

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sponge gourd,
1. the fruit of the loofah.
2. the plant itself.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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