spongy

[US]/ˈspʌndʒi/
[UK]/ˈspʌndʒi/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. soft and porous like a sponge; able to absorb water easily; elastic

Phrases & Collocations

spongy texture

spongy consistency

Example Sentences

a soft, spongy blanket of moss.

drank the fresh air; spongy earth that drank up the rain.

The smallest veins are in direct contact with chlorenchyma, both palisade and spongy tissue.

diplophyll n. a leaf having palisade tissue on upper and lower side with intermedial spongy parenchyma tissue.

abaxial surface with indumentum 2-layered, upper layer fulvous, spongy, lower layer appressed, whitish, epidermis epapillate;

Some common troubles such as poor throwing power,burnt deposit on rim,dull gray coating,piebaldism,blue film,hazy deposit,spongy surface and roughness in decorative chromium plating were summarized.

Real-world Examples

The trabeculae are like a framework of beams that give structural support to the spongy bone.

Source: Osmosis - Musculoskeletal

Have you noticed how porous or spongy good bread is?

Source: British Students' Science Reader

He orders his own loaf of the spongy bread.

Source: Canadian drama "Saving Hope" Season 1

So you get quite a nice spongy texture to it.

Source: Gourmet Base

Bone marrow's a soft and spongy tissue found inside some bones.

Source: Children's Encyclopedia Song

And it's got a little bit of spongy give there. Oh!

Source: BBC documentary "Mom's Home Cooking"

As it happens, the most well-characterized one is used to make diapers spongy.

Source: Scishow Selected Series

So that's how these spongy organs keep our bodies efficiently supplied with air.

Source: TED-Ed (audio version)

In contrast, the claw, because it is made of bone has a somewhat spongy texture.

Source: Interpretation of Dinosaurs (Video Version)

Bone marrow is the spongy tissue inside your bones where your blood cells are created.

Source: Bilingual Edition of TED-Ed Selected Speeches

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