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luffa Definition


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loofah
loofa
luffa
noun
    loofahs, loofas, luffas
    1. The roughly cylindrical dried inner part of a tropical gourd-like fruit, used as a kind of rough sponge.
Etymology: 19c: from Egyptian Arabic lufah the name for the whole plant which produces these fruits.



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