GENUS LUFFA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Luffa mean? 

• GENUS LUFFA (noun)
  The noun GENUS LUFFA has 1 sense:

1. dishcloth gourds

  Familiarity information: GENUS LUFFA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS LUFFA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Dishcloth gourds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Luffa" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "genus Luffa"):

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

Holonyms ("genus Luffa" is a member of...):

Cucurbitaceae; family Cucurbitaceae; gourd family (a family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin))