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
• 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
Useful english dictionary. 2012.