loofah
丝瓜络,丝瓜水,丝瓜网,丝瓜瓤
Definitions
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- : Also called dish·cloth gourd [dish-klawth gawrd], /ˈdɪʃ klɔθ ˌgɔrd/, rag gourd [rag-gawrd]. /ˈræg ˌgɔrd/. any of several tropical vines of the genus Luffa, of the gourd family, bearing large, elongated fruit.the fruit of such a vine.
- : Also called veg·e·ta·ble sponge [vej-tuh-buhl spuhnj]. /ˈvɛdʒ tə bəl ˌspʌndʒ/. the dried, fibrous interior of this fruit, used as a sponge.
Examples
This is when you have to stand in the shower for a solid 30 minutes, as your nerves slowly come back to life from their cryogenic state, before even picking up the loofah and soap.
It’s sort of like the brain is a loofah full of sudsy soap sitting in the middle of a tub and the waves are hands reaching out to squish it clean.
“Intercourse felt, often, like shoving a loofah into a mason jar,” she writes, for example.
She had found a loofah, two sponges and some cakes of soap elaborately arranged in a pattern on the bathroom floor.
So Leslie picked up her chum's rough towels, her loofah and her verbena-scented soap.
It is devoid of any lining, and its texture puts one in mind of a loosely made loofah.
It weaves a nest which looks like a ragged loofah with a hole in the side.
Eleanor is the roughest and toughest loofah that was ever known.