demosponge

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sponge of the class Demospongiae, having skeletons made of spongin fibers.
    — We know that at least some living calcified demosponges grow extremely slowly (0.2 mm/year Willems and Hartman 1985) and, since individuals can grow up to 1 m in diameter, are also very old (up to 5000 years).

词形变化

demosponges plural

词源

From Ancient Greek δῆμος (dêmos, “common people”) + sponge, a partial calque of translingual Demospongiae.
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