a. [f. SPONGE sb.1 + -LIKE.] Like or resembling a sponge; spongy.

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1594.  T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., II. 49. The matter of Kernels is more Sponge-like.

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1642.  H. More, Song of Soul, III. App. xxxix. Wherein they bathe Themselves, and sponge-like suck that vitall flood.

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1798.  Hull Advertiser, 1 Sept., 3/3. Plumb-stones had an incrustation attached to them of a spunge-like substance.

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1837.  P. Keith, Bot. Lex., 402. The cutis vera … is itself chiefly cellular and sponge-like in its structure.

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1866.  Treas. Bot., 513/2. The sponge-like masses in which the capsules of Polyides are immersed.

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