Venus's flower basket

Venus flower basket

or Ve·nus' flower basket V0055600 (vē′nəs, vē′nə-sĭz) also Ve·nus's flower basket (-nə-sĭz)n. Any of several sponges of the genus Euplectella, living in deep marine waters of the Indian and western Pacific Oceans and having a cylindrical skeleton of glassy intricate latticework.

Venus's flower basket

n (Animals) any of several deep-sea sponges of the genus Euplectella, esp E. aspergillum, having a skeleton composed of interwoven glassy six-rayed spicules

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1.Venus's flower basket - a deep-water marine sponge having a cylindrical skeleton of intricate glassy latticework; found in the waters of the East Indies and the eastern coast of Asiaglass sponge - a siliceous sponge (with glassy spicules) of the class HyalospongiaeEuplectella, genus Euplectella - a genus of Hyalospongiae