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Spinose
- adjective - having spines
Spinous
- adjective - having spines; "the dorsal fin is spinous"
- shaped like a spine or thorn
SPINOUT
- unknown - Skid that throws a motor vehicle off the track
Spinoza
- noun - Dutch philosopher who espoused a pantheistic system (1632-1677)
Spondee
- noun - a metrical unit with stressed-stressed syllables
Sponged
- 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
Sponger
- 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
Sponges
- noun - a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
- a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used
- ask for and get free; be a parasite
- erase with a sponge; as of words on a blackboard
- gather sponges, in the ocean
- primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies
- soak up with a sponge
- someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily; "she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge"
- wipe with a sponge, so as to clean or moisten
Spongin
- - The chemical basis of sponge tissue, a nitrogenous, hornlike substance which on decomposition with sulphuric acid yields leucin and glycocoll.