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Noun Concept
Categories: Parazoa, Ediacaran first appearances, Articles with permanently dead external links, Articles with 'species' microformats, Aquatic animals
EN
sponge  poriferan  parazoan  sponges  marine sponge
EN
Primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies WordNet 3.0
English:
animal
Definitions
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Primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera, are a basal animal clade as a sister of the Diploblasts. Wikipedia
Animal of the phylum Porifera. Wikipedia Disambiguation
An member of any of the species belonging to the phylum Porifera. They are marine porous animals. OmegaWiki
A phylum of the animal kingdom characterized by the presence of canal systems and chambers through which water is drawn in and released; tissues and organs are absent. OmegaWiki
Any sponge (of the subkingdom Parazoa). Wiktionary
(zoology) any sponge. Wiktionary (translation)
Any of various marine invertebrates, mostly of the phylum Porifera, that have a porous skeleton often of silica. Wiktionary
IS A
invertebrate
taxonomic group
HAS PART
Eltanin Antenna
PART OF
Porifera
HAS KIND
glass sponge
sponge
siliceous sponge
Euplectella
Spheciospongia vesparium
+5 relations
DERIVATION
sponge
spongy
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Otto's encyclopedia
Internetowa encyklopedia PWN
Bible Encyclopedia of Archimandrite Nicephorus
DIFFERENT FROM
sponge
PARENT TAXON
animal
Parazoa
STUDIED BY
spongiology
TAXON RANK
phylum
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
EN
sponge, poriferan, parazoan
Wikipedia
EN
sponge
Wikidata
EN
Porifera
Wiktionary
EN
parazoan, sponge
OmegaWiki
EN
marine sponge, poriferan, sponge, sponges
Wikipedia Redirections
EN
asconoid, Asconoid, syconoid, and leuconoid., Autoskeleton, carnivorous sponge, Ecology of sponges, Ecology of Sponges, freshwater sponge, leuconoid, marine sponge, ostia(Sponges), ostium (sponges), Perifera, porifer, poriferan, Poriferology, Primitive Sponge, Red Sponge, sea sponge, sea sponges, Sponge (animal), Sponge holobiont, sponge loop, sponges, Spongiaria, sponging (Cetacean Tool Use), spongiologist, Spongiæ, syconoid
Wikidata Alias
EN
sponges

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