rag gourd

Questions about rag gourd

What does rag gourd mean?

rag gourd means "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".

What is another word for rag gourd?

Close synonyms include luffa, dishcloth gourd, sponge gourd, strainer vine. 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 rag gourd a common word?

rag gourd is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.