SPONGE GENUS

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Meaning:

A genus of Porifera

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sponge genus" is a kind of...):

genus ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sponge genus"):

Euplectella; genus Euplectella (a genus of Hyalospongiae)

Holonyms ("sponge genus" is a member of...):

phylum Porifera; Porifera (coextensive with the subkingdom Parazoa: sponges)