Associations to the word «Spongin»

Wiktionary

SPONGIN, noun. A horny, sulfur-containing protein related to keratin that forms the skeletal structure of certain classes of sponges proteinaceous compounds of which the spicules in Demospongiae are composed.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats