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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[NL., fr. Gr. [GREEK] well plaited;

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well + [GREEK] plaited.]

(Zoöl.)

A genus of elegant, glassy sponges, consisting of interwoven siliceous fibers, and growing in the form of a cornucopia; – called also

Venus’s flower-basket