strainer vine

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strainer vine - 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

dishcloth gourd, rag gourd, sponge gourd, luffa

genus Luffa - dishcloth gourds

Luffa cylindrica, vegetable sponge, loofah - the loofah climber that has cylindrical fruit

angled loofah, Luffa acutangula, sing-kwa - loofah of Pakistan; widely cultivated throughout tropics

loofa, loofah, loufah sponge, luffa - the dried fibrous part of the fruit of a plant of the genus Luffa; used as a washing sponge or strainer

vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface