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Lithophagous :: Lithophagous (a.) Eating or destroying stone; -- applied to various animals which make burrows in stone, as many bivalve mollusks, certain sponges, annelids, and sea urchins. See Lithodomus..

Coelenterata :: Coelenterata (n. pl.) A comprehensive group of Invertebrata, mostly marine, comprising the Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Ctenophora. The name implies that the stomach and body cavities are one. The group is sometimes enlarged so as to include the sponges..

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

Zoophyte :: Zoophyte (v. i.) Any one of numerous species of invertebrate animals which more or less resemble plants in appearance, or mode of growth, as the corals, gorgonians, sea anemones, hydroids, bryozoans, sponges, etc., especially any of those that form compound colonies having a branched or treelike form, as many corals and hydroids..

Spongida :: Spongiae (n. pl.) The grand division of the animal kingdom which includes the sponges; -- called also Spongida, Spongiaria, Spongiozoa, and Porifera..

Hyalonema :: Hyalonema (n.) A genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composed of very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted together like the strands of a color. The stem of the Japanese species (H. Sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament. See Glass-rope..

Sponge :: Sponge (v. i.) To suck in, or imbile, as a sponge..

Sponge :: Sponge (v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of something by imposition.

Bummer :: Bummer (n.) An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger..

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

Sponge :: Sponge (n.) One who lives upon others; a pertinaceous and indolent dependent; a parasite; a sponger.

Sponge :: Sponge (n.) Iron ore, in masses, reduced but not melted or worked..

Spongeous :: Spongelet (n.) See Spongiole.

Spongin :: Spongilla (n.) A genus of siliceous spongea found in fresh water.

Smell-feast :: Smell-feast (n.) One who is apt to find and frequent good tables; a parasite; a sponger.

Imbibe :: Imbibe (v. t.) To drink in; to absorb; to suck or take in; to receive as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes moisture..

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

Spongiae :: Sponger (n.) Fig.: A parasitical dependent; a hanger-on.

Spongiose :: Spongiopilin (n.) A kind of cloth interwoven with small pieces of sponge and rendered waterproof on one side by a covering of rubber. When moistend with hot water it is used as a poultice.

Sponger :: Sponger (n.) One who sponges, or uses a sponge..

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