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Swamped :: Swamp (n.) Wet, spongy land; soft, low ground saturated with water, but not usually covered with it; marshy ground away from the seashore..

Swan :: Swampy (a.) Consisting of swamp; like a swamp; low, wet, and spongy; as, swampy land..

Medullary :: Medullary (a.) Filled with spongy pith; pithy.

Bibulous :: Bibulous (v. t.) Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper..

Pumiced :: Pumiced (a.) Affected with a kind of chronic laminitis in which there is a growth of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof wall. The disease is called pumiced foot, or pumice foot..

Cancellous :: Cancellous (a.) Having a spongy or porous structure; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones..

Crumpet :: Crumpet (n.) A kind of large, thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider..

Pith :: Pith (n.) The soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees, especially those of the dicotyledonous or exogenous classes. It consists of cellular tissue..

Fungous :: Fungous (a.) Of the nature of fungi; spongy.

Diploe :: Diploe (n.) The soft, spongy, or cancellated substance between the plates of the skull..

Spongy :: Spongy (a.) Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy..

Water Lettuce :: Water lettuce () A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves..

Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To cause to rise, as by the effect of leaven; to make light and spongy, as bread..

Levulin :: Levulin (n.) A substance resembling dextrin, obtained from the bulbs of the dahlia, the artichoke, and other sources, as a colorless, spongy, amorphous material. It is so called because by decomposition it yields levulose..

Sponge :: Sponge (n.) Dough before it is kneaded and formed into loaves, and after it is converted into a light, spongy mass by the agency of the yeast or leaven..

Pith :: Pith (n.) The spongy interior substance of a feather.

Stroma :: Stroma (n.) The spongy, colorless framework of a red blood corpuscle or other cell..

Fungus :: Fungus (n.) A spongy, morbid growth or granulation in animal bodies, as the proud flesh of wounds..

Spongy :: Spongy (a.) Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones..

Slacken :: Slacken (n.) A spongy, semivitrifled substance which miners or smelters mix with the ores of metals to prevent their fusion..

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