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adj. Resembling a sponge in elasticity, absorbency, or porousness.

adj. having the characteristics of a sponge, namely being absorbent, squishy or porous

adj. Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.

adj. Soft, and full of cavities; of an open, loose, pliable texture

adj. Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.

adj. Having the quality of imbibing fluids, like a sponge.

Of the nature or character of a sponge; spongiform or spongoid.

Resembling a sponge in certain particulars; soft or elastic and porous; of open, loose, compressible texture, like a bath-sponge; punky, pithy, or soft-grained, as wood; boggy or soggy, as soil; absorbent; imbibitive. See cuts under cellular and cystolith.

As it were soaked with drink; drunken.

Moist; wet; rainy.

In bookbinding, having a certain looseness or softness, which arises from irregularities in type impressions which have not been beaten out.

adj. like a sponge in being able to absorb liquids and yield it back when compressed

adj. easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility

"The red marrow is located in what is known as the spongy substance of the bones (Chapter XIV) and consists, to a large extent, of cells somewhat like the red corpuscles, but differing from them in having nuclei."

absorptive    absorbent    soft   

spongy platinum    spongy bones    spongy cartilage   

spongiest    spongier   

wet    drenched    rainy    porous    marshy    absorbent   

bungee    grungy   

fibrous    porous    springy    rubbery    slimy    moist    mossy    velvety    sodden    whitish