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glass sponge

DEFINITIONS OF: glass sponge

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n a siliceous sponge (with glassy spicules) of the class Hyalospongiae

Types:
Venus's flower basket
a deep-water marine sponge having a cylindrical skeleton of intricate glassy latticework; found in the waters of the East Indies and the eastern coast of Asia
Type of:
parazoan, poriferan, sponge
primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies
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