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sponge
/spənj/
noun
- a primitive sedentary aquatic invertebrate with a soft porous body that is typically supported by a framework of fibers or calcareous or glassy spicules. Sponges draw in a current of water to extract nutrients and oxygen.
- a piece of a soft, light, porous substance originally consisting of the fibrous skeleton of an invertebrate but now usually made of synthetic material. Sponges absorb liquid and are used for washing and cleaning.
- short for sponge cake."a chocolate sponge"
- a person who lives at someone else's expense.
- a heavy drinker.
verb
- wipe, rub, or clean with a wet sponge or cloth."she sponged him down in an attempt to cool his fever"synonyms: wash, clean, wipe, swab, mop, rinse, sluice, swill
- obtain or accept money or food from other people without doing or intending to do anything in return."they found they could earn a perfectly good living by sponging off others"synonyms: scrounge off/from, live off, be a parasite on, impose on, beg from, borrow from, be dependent on, freeload on, bum off, cadge from, mooch off, bludge on
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They are multicellular organisms that have bodies full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate through them, consisting of jelly-like mesohyl ...
Sponge
Animal
Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera, are a basal animal clade as a sister of the diploblasts. They are multicellular organisms that have bodies full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate through them, consisting of jelly-like... Wikipedia
Lower classifications
any of a phylum (Porifera) of aquatic chiefly marine simple invertebrate animals that have a double-walled body of loosely aggregated cells with a skeleton ...
verb · tr; often foll by off or down to clean (something) by wiping or rubbing with a damp or wet sponge · tr; usually foll by off, away, out, etc to remove ( ...