Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Resembling a sponge in appearance or texture; spongy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having the form or structure of a sponge; poriferous, as a member of the Spongiæ; of or pertaining to the Spongiæ.
- Sponge-like; spongy; soft, elastic, and porous, like an ordinary bath-sponge: noting various objects or substances not sponges.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Resembling a sponge; soft and porous; porous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Like a
sponge ,porous , full ofholes .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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CJD results in the brain literally being turned into sponge-like, hole-filled tissue (the reason the disease is also known as spongiform encephalopathy).
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In describing the sponge-like ( "spongiform") nature of brains of infected animals, the vet mentioned "Holes in the brain are not good, not conducive to long life."
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2004
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They suggested that such "spongiform" brain disorders were caused not by conventional agents such as viruses and bacteria, but a novel type of infectious agent: a rogue protein.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Dirty, crowded conditions on factory farms can propagate sickness and disease among the animals, including swine influenza (H1N1), avian influenza (H5N1), foot-and-mouth disease, and mad-cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
Danielle Nierenberg: Global Meat Production and Consumption Continue to Rise Danielle Nierenberg 2011
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Dirty, crowded conditions on factory farms can propagate sickness and disease among the animals, including swine influenza (H1N1), avian influenza (H5N1), foot-and-mouth disease, and mad-cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
Danielle Nierenberg: Global Meat Production and Consumption Continue to Rise Danielle Nierenberg 2011
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Because of the "primitive" appearance of the heart, it is sometimes called "spongiform" or "embryonal" cardiomyopathy, and is thought to be caused by incomplete heart cell maturation.
Cardiomyopathy 2010
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CWD belongsto a family of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs).
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Over the past decade, Spain has tightened controls on beef in large part following an outbreak of “mad cow disease” (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
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CWD belongsto a family of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs).
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Dirty, crowded conditions on factory farms can propagate sickness and disease among the animals, including swine influenza (H1N1), avian influenza (H5N1), foot-and-mouth disease, and mad-cow disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
Danielle Nierenberg: Global Meat Production and Consumption Continue to Rise Danielle Nierenberg 2011
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