Lexic.us

Definition of Luffa cylindrica

1. Noun. The loofah climber that has cylindrical fruit.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Luffa Cylindrica

Literary usage of Luffa cylindrica

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Origin of Cultivated Plants by Alphonse de Candolle (1886)
"... that the cultivation of the Benincasa in China dates from the remotest antiquity.7 Towel Gourd—Momordica cylindrica, Linnaeus; luffa cylindrica, Roemer. ..."

2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1864)
"... of which the forms are far more like luffa cylindrica than the conjoined species ; and especially in Datura ..."

3. Text-book of Botany and Pharmacognosy by Henry Kraemer (1908)
"luffa cylindrica is an annual plant indigenous to the Tropies -of the Old World. It is cultivated to some extent in America, but especially in the ..."

4. Applied and Economic Botany: Especially Adapted for the Use of Students in by Henry Kraemer (1914)
"luffa cylindrica is an annual plant indigenous to the Tropics of the Old World. It is cultivated to some extent in America, but especially in the ..."

5. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1864)
"... of which the forms are far more like luffa cylindrica than the conjoined species ; and especially in Datura ..."

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