espongiario 117
espongiario . ( Of the lat. )( long , sponge). 1. adj. Zool. Says the aquatic invertebrate animals, almost all marine, in the form of bag or tube with a single opening, living together in fixed colonies on submerged objects. The wall of his body is reinforced by tiny calcareous or siliceous skeletal parts, or intersecting and resistant fibres, and crossed by numerous channels that connect the internal cavity to the outside and by which circulates the water loaded with organic particles that the animal feeds. U t. c. s. 2. m. pl. Zool. Type of these animals. Or RTOGR. ESCR. with may. initial.