purse sponge

  • 1sea purse — noun the seaward undercurrent created after waves have broken on the shore • Syn: ↑undertow, ↑sea puss, ↑sea puss, ↑sea purse, ↑sea poose • Hypernyms: ↑undertide, ↑undercurrent * * * …

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  • 2Calcareous sponge — Taxobox name = Calcareous sponges image caption = Calcispongiae from Ernst Haeckel s Kunstformen der Natur , 1904 regnum = Animalia phylum = Porifera classis = Calcarea classis horny = Bowerbank, 1864 subdivision ranks = Orders subdivision =… …

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  • 3Venus's purse — Venus Ve nus, n. [L. Venus, eris, the goddess of love, the planet Venus.] 1. (Class. Myth.) The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified. [1913 Webster] 2. (Anat.) One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit …

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  • 4Venus's purse — Venus Ve nus, n. [L. Venus, eris, the goddess of love, the planet Venus.] 1. (Class. Myth.) The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified. [1913 Webster] 2. (Anat.) One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit …

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  • 5commercial fishing — Introduction  the taking of fish and other seafood and resources from oceans, rivers, and lakes for the purpose of marketing them.       Fishing is one of the oldest employments of humankind. Ancient heaps of discarded mollusk shells (shell… …

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  • 6List of English words of Scottish Gaelic origin — This is a list of English words borrowed from Scottish Gaelic. Some of these are common in Scottish English and Scots but less so in other varieties of English.Word of Gaelic origin; Airt : Point of the compass, from àird (pronounced|aːrˠtʲ),… …

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  • 7Money bag — Moneybags redirects here. For the game character, see Moneybags (Spyro character). For the rapper, see E Moneybags. Money purse redirects here. For the money won as a prize, sometimes referred to as purse money , see prize money. Saint Homobonus… …

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  • 8Nonpayment — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Nonpayment >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 nonpayment nonpayment Sgm: N 1 default default defalcation Sgm: N 1 protest protest repudiation Sgm: N 1 application of the sponge| application of the sponge| =>! Sgm …

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  • 9Tunicate — Temporal range: Cambrian stage 3–Recent …

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  • 10Wonder Twins — Superherobox| caption=The Wonder Twins with Gleek. Art by Alex Ross. comic color=background:#8080ff character name=Wonder Twins real name=Zan and Jayna publisher=DC Comics debut=Historical: Super Friends #7 (October 1977) Modern: Extreme Justice… …

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