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GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) an elegant, cornucopia-shaped, hexactinellid sponge (Euplectella speciosa) native of the East Indies. It consists of glassy, transparent, siliceous fibers interwoven and soldered together so as to form a firm network, and has long, slender, divergent anchoring fibers at the base by means of which it stands erect in the soft mud at the bottom of the sea. Called also
Venus's flower basket , andVenus's purse .
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Fanciful Names for Marine Invertebrates
And other remnants of the sea.
mermaid's-egg, mermaid's-purse, sailor's-purse, sailor's-pocket, skate-barrow, sea-barrow, pixy-purse, sea-pincushion, sea-purse, crow-purse, mermaid's-head, medusa's-head and 32 more...
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