venus's flower basket

Venus's flower basket

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noun venus's flower basket a glass sponge of the genus Euplectella, inhabiting deep waters off the Philippines and Japan, having a cylindrical skeleton formed of an intricate latticework of siliceous spicules. 1
noun venus's flower basket any of several deep-sea sponges of the genus Euplectella, esp E. aspergillum, having a skeleton composed of interwoven glassy six-rayed spicules 0

before 1870

One of the 26% newest English words

First recorded in 1870-75

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