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VENUS'S FLOWER BASKET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A deep-water marine sponge having a cylindrical skeleton of intricate glassy latticework; found in the waters of the East Indies and the eastern coast of Asia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Venus's flower basket" is a kind of...):
glass sponge (a siliceous sponge (with glassy spicules) of the class Hyalospongiae)
Holonyms ("Venus's flower basket" is a member of...):
Euplectella; genus Euplectella (a genus of Hyalospongiae)
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