Meaning

1 senses

  1. Any sponge of the phylum Porifera.

More definitions
  • primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies

Translations

3 languages

Origin

Porifera + -an

Porifera + -an

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Forms

plural: poriferans
Singularporiferan
Pluralporiferans

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies:spongeparazoan

Word family

1 related words
Relatedporiferologist

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
porchB2porcupineporeporkB1pornporno
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