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Definition of Glass sponge
1. Noun. A siliceous sponge (with glassy spicules) of the class Hyalospongiae.
Group relationships: Class Hyalospongiae, Hyalospongiae
Specialized synonyms: Venus's Flower Basket
Literary usage of Glass sponge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"The stem of a glass- sponge, ... filaments or threads of hot glass to make spun
glass. glass-sponge ..."
2. First Course in Biology by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Walter Moore Coleman (1908)
"29 is that of a glass sponge which lives near the Philippine Islands. ...
Skeleton of a * ! glass sponge. is composed of interweaving fibers of ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1873)
"What a -wonderful, yea, fascinating thing, then, is this lovely glass- sponge !
It is amazing that a creature so simple, that it has been called ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"live at great depths in the Atlantic, one kind occurring in shallower water (100
fathoms) in the Gulf of Maine. The glass-sponge of the Japanese seas is ..."
5. Bulletin by Natural History Society of New Brunswick (1897)
"... or glass-sponge, may bo taken as an example. This animal is found in the China
Sea and other closed seas of the Pacific Ocean. ..."
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