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loofah

 or luffa

Any of six species of annual climbing vines, also called vegetable sponge or sponge gourd, that make up the genus Luffa in the gourd family, native to the Old World tropics. Two species cultivated in temperate areas (L. acutangula and L. aegyptiaca) produce 1-ft (30-cm) cucumber-shaped fruits. Edible and greenish when young, these fruits become straw-coloured with age. On removal of the skin, pulp, and seeds, there remains a complex of closely netted vascular bundles (food- and water-carrying tubes) that resembles a sponge in texture. This spongelike product is used for bathing, for washing dishes, and as an industrial fibre.



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In fact, the soap is so translucent that the company can, and does, put objects visibly inside your bar--from loofahs for ladies to rubber ducks for kids ($6.
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Set in a featureless alluvial plane, it consists of a few factories and a far-flung scatter of suburban blockwork houses, but Benson Forsyth began to discern 'an older pattern of clusters of traditional dwellings located on slightly higher ground and surrounded by rice fields and exquisite frames for growing loofahs and drying rice grass'.
 
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