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CADGES |
Sponges |
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SWISSROLLS |
Jam sponges |
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SWISS ROLLS |
Jam sponges (5,5) |
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MOOCH |
Person who sponges |
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LEECH |
Person who sponges on others |
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SPONGER |
One employed in gathering sponges. |
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SYCONES |
A division of calcareous sponges. |
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POTAMOSPONGIAE |
The fresh-water sponges. See Spongilla. |
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OSCULE |
One of the excurrent apertures of sponges. |
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TRICHITE |
A delicate, hairlike siliceous spicule, found in certain
sponges. |
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CALCISPONGIAE |
An order of marine sponges, containing
calcareous spicules. See Porifera. |
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AMORPHOZOA |
Animals without a mouth or regular internal organs,
as the sponges. |
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SPICULISPONGIAE |
A division of sponges including those which
have independent siliceous spicules. |
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FIBROSPONGIAE |
An order of sponges having a fibrous skeleton,
including the commercial sponges. |
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HEXACTINELLINE |
Belonging to the Hexactinellinae, a group of
sponges, having six-rayed siliceous spicules. |
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PALPOCIL |
A minute soft filamentary process springing from the
surface of certain hydroids and sponges. |
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TETRAXILE |
Having four branches diverging at right angles; -- said
of certain spicules of sponges. |
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HYALOSPONGIA |
An order of vitreous sponges, having glassy
six-rayed, siliceous spicules; -- called also Hexactinellinae. |
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HALICHONDRIAE |
An order of sponges, having simple siliceous
spicules and keratose fibers; -- called also Keratosilicoidea. |
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KERATOSA |
An order of sponges having a skeleton composed of
hornlike fibers. It includes the commercial sponges. |
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AMPHIDISC |
A peculiar small siliceous spicule having a denticulated
wheel at each end; -- found in freshwater sponges. |
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SPONGOBLAST |
One of the cells which, in sponges, secrete the
spongin, or the material of the horny fibers. |
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POLYMORPHOSIS |
The assumption of several structural forms without a
corresponding difference in function; -- said of sponges, etc. |
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SPONGE |
Fig.: To gain by mean arts, by intrusion, or hanging on;
as, an idler sponges on his neighbor. |
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CERATOSPONGIAE |
An order of sponges in which the skeleton
consists of horny fibers. It includes all the commercial sponges. |