Word

sponge gourd, n.

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
<noun.plant>

dishcloth gourd luffa rag gourd sponge gourd strainer vine

semantic pointers

member holonym

genus Luffa

hypernym

vine

hyponym

loofah, vegetable sponge, Luffa cylindrica angled loofah, sing-kwa, Luffa acutangula

part meronym

loofa, loofah, luffa, loufah sponge