| 释义 |
wool sponge in American English US any of several commercial sponges (genera Hippospongia and Euspongia) with durable, soft, fibrous skeletons wool sponge in American Englishnouna commercial sponge, Hippiospongia lachne, of Florida and the West Indies, the surface of which resembles the fleece of a sheep Also called: sheepswool sponge Word origin [1875–80, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1875–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: authoritarian, cross-fertilization, massage, neoclassic, overdraft |