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loo⋅fah

  [loo-fuh]
–noun
1. Also called dishcloth gourd, rag gourd.
a. any of several tropical vines of the genus Luffa, of the gourd family, bearing large, elongated fruit.
b. the fruit of such a vine.
2. Also called vegetable sponge. the dried, fibrous interior of this fruit, used as a sponge.
Also, loofa, luffa.

Origin:
1860–65; < NL Luffa the genus < Ar lūf
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loo·fa or loo·fah   (lōō'fə)   
n.  

  1. Any of several Old World tropical vines of the genus Luffa, having cylindrical fruit with a fibrous, spongelike interior.

  2. The dried, fibrous part of the loofa fruit, used as a washing sponge or as a filter. Also called dishcloth gourd, vegetable sponge.


[Arabic lūfa, singulative of lūf.]
vegetable sponge  
n.  See loofa.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Word Origin & History

loofah 
1887, from Egyptian Arabic lufah, the name of the plant (Luffa ægyptiaca) with fibrous pods from which flesh-brushes are made.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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