Noun
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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
- dishcloth gourd - sponge gourd - rag gourd - strainer vine -
the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa
used as a washing sponge or strainer
- loufah sponge