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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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The disease causes these tubercles to become yellow and spongy and coughing fits causes them to be spat out by the sufferer.
Bake in a bain-marie in the oven for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until slightly puffed-up and spongy.
Its skin was like spongy neoprene rubber, the stuff wetsuits are made from, and its eyes were just so peedie for such a big animal.
Roxie began uncapping a mauve colored lip gloss, sliding the small spongy tip across her lips.
Leaf mesophyll is differentiated into palisade and spongy parenchyma, epidermis is already formed.
The meshwork of the outer shell appears to be a spongy layer and finely interwoven.

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