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SPONGE GOURD

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

dishcloth gourd; luffa; rag gourd; sponge gourd; strainer vine

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("sponge gourd" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Meronyms (parts of "sponge gourd"):

loofa; loofah; loufah sponge; luffa (the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sponge gourd"):

loofah; Luffa cylindrica; vegetable sponge (the loofah climber that has cylindrical fruit)

angled loofah; Luffa acutangula; sing-kwa (loofah of Pakistan; widely cultivated throughout tropics)

Holonyms ("sponge gourd" is a member of...):

genus Luffa (dishcloth gourds)

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