2. Verb. (third-person singular of sponge) ¹
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Definition of Sponges
1. sponge [v] - See also: sponge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sponges
Literary usage of Sponges
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"Spongilla and several marine sponges have a peculiar method of reproduction by
the formation of gemmules. A number of germinal cells in the middle layer of ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Except a few small fresh-water species all of the sponges are marine, and occupy
all seas from ... Remains of fossil sponges in great number and variety, ..."
3. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"THE zoophytes or plant animals of the old zoologists or, as they are now more
correctly designated, the separate groups of sponges and coelenterates, ..."
4. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"sponges. Porifera. By Julius Nelson. The sponge fishery in the United States began in
... sponges reproduce by fertilized eggs, scattered through the flesh. ..."
5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1894)
"Touching the relationship between sponges and the other metazoa the author,
without dogmatizing, is inclined to believe that they had a common ancestor ..."
6. The History of Creation, Or, the Development of the Earth and Its by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel, Edwin Ray Lankester (1892)
"The sponges may, accordingly, be divided into three classes —Cementing sponges
... The first order of these, the Mucous sponges ..."
7. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1912)
"Only sponges taken outside of state territorial limits can be deemed included in
the provisions of the act of June 20, 1906 (34 Stat. at L. 313, chap. ..."
8. Journal of Morphology by Wistar Institute of Anatomy and Biology (1891)
"NOTES ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOME sponges ... The others are Bahama forms found
at Green Turtle Cay, the two silicious sponges, ..."
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