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(a) plants or plant material acting to retain moisture (now rare); (b) the spongy dried fruit of the dishcloth gourd (genus Luffa); = loofah, n.
a variety of bath-sponge.
The fibrous substance of the pod of the plant Luffa ægyptiaca, used as a sponge for washing the body. Also attributive, as loofah-tree.