单词 | wool sponge |
释义 | wool sponge in American English US any of several commercial sponges (genera Hippospongia and Euspongia) with durable, soft, fibrous skeletons wool sponge in American Englishnoun a commercial sponge, Hippiospongia lachne, of Florida and the West Indies, the surface of which resembles the fleece of a sheep Also called: sheepswool sponge Word origin [1875–80, Amer.]This word is first recorded in the period 1875–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: authoritarian, cross-fertilization, massage, neoclassic, overdraft |
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