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Spondees
- noun - a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables
Spondias
- noun - tropical trees having one-seeded fruit
Spondyle
- - A joint of the backbone; a vertebra.
Spongers
- noun - a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
- a workman employed to collect sponges
- Cadger
Spongiae
- - The grand division of the animal kingdom which includes the sponges; -- called also Spongida, Spongiaria, Spongiozoa, and Porifera.
Spongier
- adjective - easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility; "spongy bread"
- like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed
Sponging
- verb - ask for and get free; be a parasite
- erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard
- gather sponges, in the ocean
- soak up with a sponge
- wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten
Spongoid
- - Resembling sponge; like sponge.
Sponsion
- - The act of becoming surety for another.