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    SPONGE GOURD

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     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 spongeplay

    Synonyms:

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

    Classified under:

    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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