sponge
Any of various marine invertebrates of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica.
Other meanings
A piece of porous material used for washing (originally made from the invertebrates, now often made of plastic).
The porous material that synthetic washing sponges are made of.
Related words
- bacteriosponge
- barrel sponge
- breadcrumb sponge
- bullet sponge
- calcareous sponge
- calcisponge
- chewing sponge
- chuck up the sponge
- contraceptive sponge
- coralline sponge
- cyanosponge
- cytosponge
Example sentences
Word history
From Ancient Greek "σπογγιά".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “sponge” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.