spongy

• Cut the dough until light and spongy, then pat out into a rectangular sheet with the rolling-pin; spread with maple sugar and roll up like a jelly roll. —  365 Luncheon Dishes A Luncheon Dish for Every Day in the Year
• The lungs are large, spongy organs in the chest, and are continually supplied with fresh air, which passes in through the nose and mouth and down the wind-pipe, by what we call the act of breathing Insects take in oxygen in a way quite different from that of the crayfish or mankind. —  Chatterbox, 1905.
• The bones are light and spongy, and the spine particularly flexible, from the amount of cartilage between the bones. —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
• A succession of steps, formed by the substances in the water which had become hardened, led up to it, ornamented with bead and shell work; while large masses, shaped like cauliflowers or spongy-formed corals, projected from the walls. —  In the Rocky Mountains A Tale of Adventure
• It is most useful for a spongy state of the gums, attended with looseness of the teeth This plant grows in moist meadows, but is not common. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

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