| 释义 |
spongeous, a.|ˈspʌndʒəs|
Also 6 spoungeous, 6–7 spungeous.
[ad. L. spongeōs-us, f. spongea sponge n.1 Cf. spongious a.]
1. Of the nature or character of a sponge; porous, spongy.
α1398Trevisa Barth De P.R. xiv. xxxii. (Tollem. MS.), Thouȝe cragges be neuer so harde and rouȝe and scharpe withoute, ȝit within þey ben sumdel spongeous. 1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. E iv, Fro the vaynes and arteres and the spongeous flesshe. 1548–77Vicary Anat. v. (1888) 43 The Uuila is a member made of a spongeous fleshe. 1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. viii. 19 A Wood-like rottennesse, viz. drie, spongeous, full of holes. 1698A. Brand Emb. fr. Muscovy into China 21 The Agarius Tree, whose spongeous substance is..carried to Archangel. 1758J. S. tr. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1771) 227, I..found a Caries..penetrating into their spongeous Texture. 1847Ansted Anc. World x. 233 In the sand associated with the chalk..spongeous bodies..are also met with in a perfect state. 1889Z. A. Ragozin Media, Babylon, & Persia 35 Many are the rivulets..that dribble and trickle through spongeous stone and rocky rifts.
β1601Holland Pliny II. 514 It is spungeous and brittle, apt to break or resolue into flakes. 1658Franck North. Mem. (1821) 350 A marly spungeous clay. 1683K. Digby Chym. Secr. 96 To render it more Spungeous. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Disease, Spungeous Membranes of the Head.
b. Soft and yielding as a sponge. rare—1.
1607Brewer Lingua iv. iv, I lay my head between two spungeous pillowes.
2. Characterized by porousness or sponginess.
c1600T. Pont Topogr. Acc. Cunningham (Maitl. Club) 6 The surface of the soyle..being of it selve of a spongeous nature, sucking the humiditie. 1822J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 22 That spongeous state which accompanies bituminization. |