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DISHCLOTH GOURD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("dishcloth 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 "dishcloth 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 "dishcloth 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 ("dishcloth gourd" is a member of...):
genus Luffa (dishcloth gourds)
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