"Sponger" is a word in ENGLISH

One of the anchor-shaped spicules of certain sponges; also, one of the calcareous spinules of certain Holothurians, as in species …

v. /AG-/ to wipe or sponge one’s body with a wet cloth or sponge. Agbasabas ka ti napudot nga danum. …

A comprehensive group of Invertebrata, mostly marine, comprising the Anthozoa, Hydrozoa, and Ctenophora. The name implies that the stomach and …

Formerly, in the British service, a gunner or a gunner's mate; one of the soldiers in a train of artillery, …

One of the excurrent apertures of sponges.

Any one of numerous species of Spongiae, or Porifera. See Illust. and Note under Spongiae.

One who lives upon others; a pertinaceous and indolent dependent; a parasite; a sponger.

One of the microsporic siliceous spicules which occur abundantly in the texture of sponges, and are sometimes found fossil, as …

A kind of cloth interwoven with small pieces of sponge and rendered waterproof on one side by a covering of …

One of the cells which, in sponges, secrete the spongin, or the material of the horny fibers.

One of a peculiar kind of internal buds, or germs, produced in the interior of certain Bryozoa and sponges, especially …

Any one of numerous species of siliceous fossil sponges belonging to Ventriculites and allied genera, characteristic of the Cretaceous period.

Any one of numerous species of invertebrate animals which more or less resemble plants in appearance, or mode of growth, …