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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

spongey en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of spongy.
    alt of spongy
    • Narrow boardwalks got us through some of the spongiest parts of the Swamp. […] As we moved in and out of fog through ferns (hapuʻu and uluhe lau nui), flowering evergreen trees (ōhiʻa), tropical sandalwood (iliahi), spongey mosses, and rotting wood, I was reminded of the film Jurassic Park, which was shot in a botanical garden on the south side of Kauai. 2021, Edward Struzik, “Tropical Peat”, in Swamplands: Tundra Beavers, Quaking Bogs, and the Improbable World of Peat, Washington, D.C.: Island Press, →ISBN, page 100:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
spongier Degree=Cmp lexicographic
spongiest Degree=Sup lexicographic