Sponginess: alternatives and connections

A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has be…

Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper.

A quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to sink; a marsh; a morass.

Open or spongy, as some porous bones.

Having a spongy or porous structure; made up of cancelli; cancellated; as, the cancellous texture of parts of many bones.

The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermel…

Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrower compass, as an elastic or spongy substance.

A kind of large, thin muffin or cake, light and spongy, and cooked on a griddle or spider.

The soft, spongy, or cancellated substance between the plates of the skull.

The soft, spongy wood of a species of Magnolia (M. Umbrella).

Spongy; soft; fat and puffy.

Like a fungus; fungous; spongy.

Of the nature of fungi; spongy.

A spongy, morbid growth or granulation in animal bodies, as the proud flesh of wounds.

A substance resembling dextrin, obtained from the bulbs of the dahlia, the artichoke, and other sources, as a colorless, spongy, amorp…

Filled with spongy pith; pithy.

Deep mud; wet, spongy earth.

A light, spongy, cylindrical cake, used for breakfast and tea.