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Physemaria :: Physemaria (n. pl.) A group of simple marine organisms, usually classed as the lowest of the sponges. They have inflated hollow bodies..

Amorphozoa :: Amorphozoa (n. pl.) Animals without a mouth or regular internal organs, as the sponges..

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

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

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

Syndactyle :: Syncytium (n.) The ectoderm of a sponge.

Spiculispongiae :: Spiculispongiae (n. pl.) A division of sponges including those which have independent siliceous spicules.

Sponge :: Sponge (n.) Any spongelike substance.

Palpocil :: Palpocil (n.) A minute soft filamentary process springing from the surface of certain hydroids and sponges.

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

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

Spongelet :: Sponge (v. i.) To be converted, as dough, into a light, spongy mass by the agency of yeast, or leaven..

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

Trichite :: Trichite (n.) A delicate, hairlike siliceous spicule, found in certain sponges..

Amphidisc :: Amphidisc (n.) A peculiar small siliceous spicule having a denticulated wheel at each end; -- found in freshwater sponges.

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..

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

Suberone :: Suberite (n.) Any sponge of the genus Suberites and allied genera. These sponges have a fine and compact texture, and contain minute siliceous spicules..

Dispunge :: Dispunge (v. t.) See Disponge.

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

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