bath sponge

noun

1. any of various common sponges, of the family Spongiidae, that have a skeletal network composed of fibers of spongin: collected in the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, and the Caribbean for their commercial value.

Example Sentences

However, some sponge types have a skeleton made of tough protein fibers called spongin, forming a distinctive, microscopic, three-dimensional meshwork, identical to a bath sponge.

From Singularity Hub 

He opened the Gladstone bag as he spoke, and took out, to my astonishment, a very large bath-sponge.

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The reader is already aware that tundra is impassable in summer, for its consistency is then that of a wet bath sponge.

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Then I begin again, but I stop at six in the second series and cross myself upon the breast with the bath sponge.

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The general appearance of the establishment reminded us of a huge bath-sponge.

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The bath-sponge or slate-sponge consists simply of the hard parts or skeleton of a sponge animal.

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