sponge gourd

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 (synset 112186941)
   is a type of: vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
   subtypes:

   • 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
   belongs to: genus luffa - dishcloth gourds
   has: 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
   same as: dishcloth gourd, luffa, rag gourd, strainer vine

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