sponge gourd

Questions about sponge gourd

What is another word for sponge gourd?

It depends which sponge gourd you mean. In the sense “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”, the synonyms are luffa, dishcloth gourd, rag gourd, strainer vine. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of sponge gourd?

WordNet records no antonym for sponge gourd. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for sponge gourd come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of sponge gourd

• Full entry for sponge gourdAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for sponge gourdWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.