VEGETABLE SPONGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vegetable sponge mean? 

• VEGETABLE SPONGE (noun)
  The noun VEGETABLE SPONGE has 1 sense:

1. the loofah climber that has cylindrical fruit

  Familiarity information: VEGETABLE SPONGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VEGETABLE SPONGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The loofah climber that has cylindrical fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

loofah; Luffa cylindrica; vegetable sponge

Hypernyms ("vegetable sponge" is a kind of...):

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)