strainer vine

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymsluffadishcloth gourdsponge gourdrag gourd

   Broadervine

   Narrowerloofahangled loofah

   Part ofgenus Luffa

   Partsloofa

Questions about strainer vine

What does strainer vine mean?

strainer vine 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 strainer vine?

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

strainer vine 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.