| 单词 | luffa |
| 释义 | luffa (once / 454589 pages) n WORD FAMILY luffa: luffas USAGE EXAMPLESHis two best-selling items are potent home-brewed rice wine and luffa stem water, which many believe can soothe and whiten the skin. BBC(Apr 22, 2014) In “Marigolds,” they’re flowers in overgrown tutus like luffa sponges that sprout beveled legs for stems. New York Times(Dec 19, 2013) The luffa sponges were growing nicely until spider mites attacked. New York Times(Sep 18, 2011) 1n 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 Syn|Hypo|Hyper dishcloth gourd, rag gourd, sponge gourd, strainer vine Luffa cylindrica, loofah, vegetable sponge the loofah climber that has cylindrical fruit Luffa acutangula, angled loofah, sing-kwaloofah of Pakistan; widely cultivated throughout tropics vine a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface 2n the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer Syn|Hyper loofa, loofah, loufah sponge fiber, fibre a slender and greatly elongated substance capable of being spun into yarn |
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