1.(Zool.) An order of vitreous sponges, having glassy six-rayed, siliceous spicules; - called also Hexactinellinæ.
Hyalospongia
Hyalospongia
[‚hi·ə·lō′spən·jē·ə] (paleontology) A class of extinct glass sponges, equivalent to the living Hexactinellida, having siliceous spicules made of opaline silica.