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What does spongy mean?

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Adjective
  1. Having the characteristics of a sponge, namely being absorbent, squishy or porous.
  2. Wet; drenched; soaked and soft, like sponge; rainy.
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Leaf mesophyll is differentiated into palisade and spongy parenchyma, epidermis is already formed.
Bake in a bain-marie in the oven for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until slightly puffed-up and spongy.
The meshwork of the outer shell appears to be a spongy layer and finely interwoven.
It commonly appears as a spongy mass because of the three-dimensional meshwork.
While the sauce for the chicken korma was mild and creamy, the texture of the meat, I'm sorry to say, was unpleasantly chewy and spongy.
The bitter apple, Citrullus colocynthis, has a spongy pulp that when dried is the source of the glucosidal drug colocynth.

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