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sponge-like, a.
[f. sponge n.1 + -like.]
Like or resembling a sponge; spongy.
1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 49 The matter of Kernels is more Sponge-like. 1642H. More Song of Soul iii. App. xxxix, Wherein they bathe Themselves, and sponge⁓like suck that vitall flood. 1798Hull Advertiser 1 Sept. 3/3 Plumb-stones had an incrustation attached to them of a spunge-like substance. 1837P. Keith Bot. Lex. 402 The cutis vera..is itself chiefly cellular and sponge-like in its structure. 1866Treas. Bot. 513/2 The sponge-like masses in which the capsules of Polyides are immersed. |