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Sponge :: Sponge (v. i.) Fig.: To gain by mean arts, by intrusion, or hanging on; as, an idler sponges on his neighbor..

Oscule :: Oscule (n.) One of the excurrent apertures of sponges.

Potamospongiae :: Potamospongiae (n. pl.) The fresh-water sponges. See Spongilla.

Keratosa :: Keratosa (n. pl.) An order of sponges having a skeleton composed of hornlike fibers. It includes the commercial sponges.

Spongiole :: Sponging () a. & n. from Sponge, v..

Spongilla :: Spongiform (a.) Resembling a sponge; soft and porous; porous.

Tetraxile :: Tetraxile (a.) Having four branches diverging at right angles; -- said of certain spicules of sponges.

Sponger :: Sponger (n.) One employed in gathering sponges.

Scepterellate :: Scepterellate (a.) Having a straight shaft with whorls of spines; -- said of certain sponge spicules. See Illust. under Spicule.

Spongoid :: Spongoblast (n.) One of the cells which, in sponges, secrete the spongin, or the material of the horny fibers..

Statocracy :: Statoblast (n.) One of a peculiar kind of internal buds, or germs, produced in the interior of certain Bryozoa and sponges, especially in the fresh-water species; -- also called winter buds..

Sponge :: Sponge (n.) The elastic fibrous skeleton of many species of horny Spongiae (keratosa), used for many purposes, especially the varieties of the genus Spongia. The most valuable sponges are found in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and on the coasts of Florida and the West Indies..

Sponge :: Sponge (v. t.) To wipe out with a sponge, as letters or writing; to efface; to destroy all trace of..

Ventriculus :: Ventriculus (n.) The body cavity of a sponge.

Lunette :: Lunette (n.) A half horseshoe, which wants the sponge..

Spongy :: Spongoid (a.) Resembling sponge; like sponge.

Loof :: Loof (n.) The spongelike fibers of the fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Luffa Aegyptiaca); called also vegetable sponge.

Spongiozoa :: Spongious (a.) Somewhat spongy; spongelike; full of small cavities like sponge; as, spongious bones..

Probang :: Probang (n.) A slender elastic rod, as of whalebone, with a sponge on the end, for removing obstructions from the esophagus, etc..

Hexactinelline :: Hexactinelline (a.) Belonging to the Hexactinellinae, a group of sponges, having six-rayed siliceous spicules..

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