spongin

[spuhn-jin]

noun

1. a scleroprotein occurring in the form of fibers that form the skeleton of certain sponges.

spongin

/ ˈspʌndʒɪn /

noun

1. a fibrous horny protein that forms the skeletal framework of the bath sponge and related sponges

Word History and Origins

Origin of spongin¹

First recorded in 1865–70; sponge + -in ²

Word History and Origins

Origin of spongin¹

C19: from German, from Latin spongia _sponge + _-in

Example Sentences

“What if we could cool him down quicker? If he came to himself even for a minute, you could talk to him! Why don’t we put him in the bathtub? It’d soak him cool a lot quicker than all that spongin’.

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“You ain’t got to ast’m. You jest got to let’m. Soon as he gits over the chill, y’all go’n be spongin’ him off night and day.

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Skeleton with well-defined but slender radiating fibres, which contain very little spongin; transverse fibres close together but consisting for the most part of one or two spicules only.

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A moderate amount of spongin present.

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Skeleton dense but by no means regular; the radiating fibres distinct and containing a considerable amount of spongin, at any rate in the outer part of the sponge; transverse fibres hardly distinguishable, single spicules and irregular bundles of spicules taking their place.

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