sponge gourd

Questions about sponge gourd

What does sponge gourd mean?

sponge 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 sponge gourd?

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

sponge gourd 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.