luffa cylindrica

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   the loofah climber that has cylindrical fruit

   Synonymsloofahvegetable sponge

   Broaderluffa

Questions about luffa cylindrica

What does luffa cylindrica mean?

luffa cylindrica means "the loofah climber that has cylindrical fruit".

What is another word for luffa cylindrica?

Close synonyms include loofah, vegetable sponge. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is luffa cylindrica a common word?

luffa cylindrica is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.