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Spongious
- - Somewhat spongy; spongelike; full of small cavities like sponge; as, spongious bones.
Spoonwood
- - The mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia).
Spoonworm
- - A gephyrean worm of the genus Thalassema, having a spoonlike proboscis.
Sporogony
- - The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.
Sporozoan
- noun - parasitic spore-forming protozoan
Squadrons
- noun - a cavalry unit consisting of two or more troops and headquarters and supporting arms
- a naval unit that is detached from the fleet for a particular task
- an air force unit larger than a flight and smaller than a group
Squarrose
- - Ragged or full of loose scales or projecting parts; rough; jagged; as: (a) (Bot. & Zool.) Consisting of scales widely divaricating; having scales, small leaves, or other bodies, spreading widely from the axis on which they are crowded; -- said of a calyx or stem. (b) (Bot.) Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; -- said of a leaf. (c) (Zool.) Having scales spreading every way, or standing upright, or at right angles to the surface; -- said of a shell.