What is "sponges"

Usage examples of "sponges".

Polyps, sponges, and cystic entozoa, may also be included among hermaphrodites.

The rammers and sponges belonging to the broadside-guns of spar-deck divisions of all ships having topgallant forecastles, or other light decks, may be kept under the forecastle or light deck when not in use.

For chambered guns the sponges must fit the chambers and slopes, and a portion of the main bore, as shown in the drawings furnished by the Bureau.

The heads for woollen sponges should be one inch less in diameter than the bores or chambers of the guns for which they are intended.

In the lower order of animals, as in sponges, this function is performed by contiguous cells, in a manner almost as elementary as in plants.

In the lower order of animals, as in sponges, absorption is performed by contiguous cells, which are quite as effortless as in plants.

Because of their organic indolence, sponges are often classed as vegetables.

Four maternity nurses and two pediatric nurses hurried about, hooking up the suction, counting lap sponges and packages of sutures, and resetting dials on the newborn resuscitation cart.

There was blood and meconium on the floor, and gauze sponges and plastic wrappings strewn about all over the place.

She felt her nose, stiff with the palladium sponges inside its nostrils.

She glanced toward the rim where the energies of the jellies were strong compared to the sponges that colored the edges of her mind.

When the sponges grow together, the entire structure is almost eighty times stronger than each would be by itself.

But there was no threat in the jellies or the platform sponges, no sense of a predator that waited for the meres.

She could still smell the turpen-tinic scent of the sponges on her skin.

It was as if her pain were caught and absorbed by a thousand sponges that each took a flame from her body.