A Grammatical Dictionary of Botanical Latin

spongiosus,-a,-um (adj.A): spongy, porous, soft and water-soaked, like a wet sponge; compressible, elastic; absorbent; “having the texture of a sponge, that is to say, very cellular, with the cellules filled with air; as the coats of many seeds” (Lindley); cellulose, full of cells, consisting of cells, spongy (Jackson); (of habitats) wet, swampy, periodically inundated, water-logged, damp; cellulosus,-a,-um (adj.A); syn. cellularis,-e (adj.B) (Jackson); “spongy, porous, soft and water-soaked, like a wet sponge” (Stearn); cf. fungosus,-a,-um (adj.A); cf. lacunosus,-a,-um (adj.A); see pithy, porose; see spongy (Eng.adj); see swampy;

spongiosus,-a,-um (adj.A): “spongy, soft, having the texture of a sponge, cellular and containing air, as in many seed coats” (Jackson).

spongy (Eng.adj.)” “having the consistency of a sponge: being soft and full of cavities; (of earth) being elastic, porous, and absorbent; lacking in strength and solidity, not firm or solid (as of wood, [punky TO DO]); moist and soft like a sponge, full of water, saturated, soggy (as a moor)” (WIII).

- fungus spongiosus niger, pannum laneum textura simulans, doliolis vinosis adnascens Pluk. Alm. p. 1 64 (Dill.), a spongy fungus, [shining] black, resembling a woollen cloth in texture, growing on small wine casks.

- pyrenae pariete spongioso distinguitur, it is distinguished by the spongy wall of the pyrene.

- bacca spongiosa, aculeata, irregulariter rupta, sepalis persistentibus coronata (B&H), berries spongy, prickly, irregularly ruptured, crowned with persistent sepals.

- in paludosis sylvaticis spongiosis planitierum Germaniae septentrionalis (C. Mueller), in the forested swampy, water-soaked [places[ of the plains of northern Germany.

- siliqua late ovoideo-oblonga, utrinque obtusa, epicarpio spongioso, endocarpio osseo (B&H), silique broadly ovoid-oblong, on both ends obtuse, with a spongy epicarpium, a bony endocarpium.

- funiculus dilatatus in carunculam spongiosam bilobam (DeCandolle), the funiculus dilated into a two-lobed, spongy caruncle.

- [fungi] caro laxa, spongiosa, molliuscula, alba, sed ad rupturam illico incarnascens (S&A), the flesh loose, spongy, rather soft, white, but on the spot where ruptured, flesh-colored.

- [Splachnum vasculosum] locis spongiosis et turfosis alpium Scotiae, et Scandinaviae. In turfosis montis Bructeri Hercyniae fructiferum legisse Ehrhart dixit (C. Muell.), in saturated places and boggy of the high places of Scotland and Scandinavia. Ehrhart has said to have collected fruiting [sc. Splachnum] in the boggy places of Mount Bructerus of Hercynia (eastern Germany).

- [Mnium medium] in sylvis spongiosis Montis piniferi prope Gefrees: Funk; in iisdem locis Hercyniae in valle flum. Bode dicti: Hampe; (C. Muell.), in soggy wood of the piney Mountain near Gefrees: Funk; in the same places of Hercynia [eastern Germany; Hercynian Mountains] in the valley of the river called Bode.

- [Mnium] in paludosis sylvaticis spongiosis planitierum Germaniae septentrionalis (C. Muell.), in swampy wooded [sc. places], saturated, of the plains of northern Germany.

- fungus spongiosus niger, pannum laneum textura simulans, doliolis vinosis adnascens Pluk. Alm. p. 1 64 (Dill.), a spongy fungus, [shining] black, resembling a woollen cloth in texture, growing on small wine casks.

bullato-spongiosus,-a,-um (adj.A): blistered or puckered and spongy.

spongioso-coriaceus,-a,-um (adj.A): leathery and also spongy.

cellulose, full of cells, consisting of cells, spongy (Jackson).

fungidus,-a,-um (adj.A): spongy.

fungosus,-a,-um (adj.A), q.v.: spongy; “spongy in texture” (Jackson).

pulmoneus,-a,-um (adj.A): of or belonging to the lungs, pulmonic; soft or swelling like the lungs, spongy (Lewis & Short).

spongiosulus,-a,-um (adj.A): somewhat spongy, porous, cellulose, etc.

Spongy cortex: “cortical tissue with air-bearing intercellular spaces, frequent in water plants” (Jackson): cortex,-icis (s.m.III) spongiosus, abl. sg. cortice spongioso.

Spongy parenchyma, “loosely aggregated tissue, or having conspicuous intercellular spaces” (Jackson): parenchyma,-atis (s.n.III) spongiosum, abl. sg. parenchymate spongioso.

Spongiocarpaceae

Atriplex spongiosa; Eriocaulon spongiosa; Urostachys spongiosus.

[lichens] Lichen spongiosus; Leptogium spongiosum; Collema spongiosum

[liverwort] Anthoceros spongiosus; Chiloscyphus spongiosus

[moss] Anomobryum spongiosum; Bryum spongiosum