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Spongy   /spˈəndʒi/   Listen
adjective
Spongy  adj.  
1.
Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture; as, a spongy excrescence; spongy earth; spongy cake; spongy bones.
2.
Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy. "Spongy April."
3.
Having the quality of imbibing fluids, like a sponge.
Spongy lead (Chem.), sponge lead. See under Sponge.
Spongy platinum. See under Platinum.





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"Spongy" Quotes from Famous Books



... explanation given by the Professor of this phenomenon is, that the blocks of basalt, that being an excellent conductor of heat, pass so much warmth through to their under surfaces—which form the roof of small chambers filled with a spongy mass of decaying leaves—that the rapid evaporation thereby caused produces the cold air and the ice. He omits to explain why there should be anything exceptional in the winter phenomenon of the crevices among ...
— Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland • George Forrest Browne
... said, that in other respects it was not a good wood for the purpose, being very light. The small canoes are nothing more than the hollow trunk of the bread-fruit tree, which is still more light and spongy. The trunk of the bread-fruit tree is six feet in girth, and about twenty feet ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 12 • Robert Kerr
... volatile from the fixed parts of a compound by fire; accordingly, in several processes, we are directed to add to the fusible compound some porous substance which is incapable of fusion, and will retain the whole in a spongy form, thereby to facilitate the ...
— Experiments upon magnesia alba, Quicklime, and some other Alcaline Substances • Joseph Black
... a wire pocket made of an ox-muzzle flattened on one side; or make something of the kind with stiff wire. Line this with a sheet of close moss, which appears green behind the wire net-work. Then you fill it with loose, spongy moss, such as you find in swamps, and plant therein great plumes of fern and various swamp-grasses; they will continue to grow there, and hang gracefully over. When watering, set a pail under for it to drip into. It needs only to keep ...
— The American Woman's Home • Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe
... abundant and low in temperature, in basins secure from flood-washing, handsome bogs are formed with a deep growth of brown and yellow sphagnum picturesquely ruined with patches of kalmia and ledum which ripen masses of beautiful color in the autumn. Between these cool, spongy bogs and the dry, flowery meadows there are many interesting varieties which are graduated into one another by the varied conditions already alluded to, forming ...
— The Mountains of California • John Muir


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