spongy
IPA: spˈʌndʒi
adjective
- Having the characteristics of a sponge, namely being absorbent, squishy or porous.
- Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.
- (slang) Drunk.
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Examples of "spongy" in Sentences
- Spongy bone occurs in most bones.
- The pith is spongy and holds the water.
- Fruit are dehiscent and have a spongy mesocarp.
- The stipe is by thick, and is hollow and spongy.
- It is a perennial, growing from a spongy rhizome.
- There are two types of osseous tissue, compact and spongy.
- Has anyone ever had an issue with baked eggs becoming "spongy"?
- The cartilage is a flimsy material that surrounds the spongy bone.
- The wood is heavy and coarse and the bark is spongy and water soaked.
- We already know how the Americans and Brits like their foamy, spongy bread.
- In the usual operation, the swollen spongy pad that forms the pile is cut away.
- The interior of bitter melon is packed with large seeds suspended in spongy material.
- That roof can get very, very -- what we call kind of spongy because it's being impinged by the fire.
- Robotics experts also have been searching for the right kind of spongy material to mimic muscle tissue and make movements less jerky.
- A huge imponderable is how, and for how long, this trauma, and what promises to be a long, often shadowy war against what Rudman calls "spongy" targets, will affect American realism.
- 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.
- If the bosky scent of dells and the idea of spongy moss against naked flesh gets you going, Mellors and Lady Chatterley-style, there remain a few pockets of urban woodland in London that provide fertile ground for al fresco fun.
- The results showed that specific details of the cranial bones and beak - such as the relative "spongy"-ness of the bone at different places in the skull and the unequal lengths of the upper and lower parts of the beak - were crucial for preventing impact injury.
- The space between these anterior and posterior openings makes a large chamber, divided by a vertical wall into halves, each of which is still further separated into three irregular cavities by three bones, called spongy, from the porosity and delicacy of their texture.
- Thirdly, two nerves also or appendages of the brain, for they do not go beyond the limits of the skull, are moved by the particles of terrestrial bodies, separated and flying in the air, not indeed by all particles indifferently, but by those only that are sufficiently subtle and penetrating to enter the pores of the bone we call the spongy, when drawn into the nostrils, and thus to reach the nerves.