spongeousadj.
/ˈspʌndʒəs/ 1.
a. Of the nature or character of a sponge; porous, spongy.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [adjective] > having (a) hole(s) > full of holes > porous
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porosea1400
spongiousc1400
pory1535
spongy1578
sponge-like1594
lax1615
porish1652
laxy1716
spongiose1755
spongiform1805
spongeoid1822
spongoid1843
polyporous1858
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β. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 514 It is spungeous and brittle, apt to break or resolue into flakes.1682 G. Hartman Digby's Choice Coll. Rare Secrets i. 96 To render it more Spungeous.1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. 296 A marly spungeous Clay.1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Disease Spungeous Membranes of the Head, Breast, Abdomen, and Uterus.1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xiv. xxxii. (Tollem. MS.) Thouȝe cragges be neuer so harde and rouȝe and scharpe withoute, ȝit within þey ben sumdel spongeous.
?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Eiv Fro the vaynes and arteres, and the spongeous flesshe.
1577 Vicary's Profitable Treat. Anat. sig. F.iv The Uuila is a member made of a spongeous fleshe.
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. viii. 19 A Wood-like rottennesse, viz. drie, spongeous, full of holes.
1698 tr. A. Brand Jrnl. Embassy from Muscovy 21 The Agarius Tree, whose spongeous substance is..carried to Archangel.
1758 J. Sparrow tr. H. F. Le Dran Observ. Surg. (1771) 227 I..found a Caries..penetrating into their spongeous Texture.
1847 D. T. Ansted Anc. World x. 233 In the sand associated with the chalk..spongeous bodies..are also met with in a perfect state.
1889 Z. A. Ragozin Media, Babylon, & Persia 35 Many are the rivulets..that dribble and trickle through spongeous stone and rocky rifts.
b. Soft and yielding as a sponge. rare.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [adjective] > spongy
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fungous?1440
spongy1539
fungy1578
sponge-like1594
airy1598
spongeous1607
fuzzy1616
spongoid1849
1607 T. Tomkis Lingua iv. iv I lay my head between two spungeous pillowes.
2. Characterized by porousness or sponginess.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [adjective] > having (a) hole(s) > full of holes > porous > of texture or qualities
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spongy1611
c1600 T. Pont Topogr. Acc. Cunningham (Maitland Club) 6 The surface of the soyle..being of it selve of a spongeous nature, sucking the humiditie.
1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 22 That spongeous state which accompanies bituminization.
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