VENUS'S BASKET

Definition: VENUS'S BASKET

VENUS'S BASKET

1. (Zo["o]l.), an elegant, cornucopia-shaped, hexactinellid sponge (Euplectella speciosa) native of the East Indies. It consists of glassy, transparent, siliceous fibers interwoven and soldered together so as to form a firm network, and has long, slender, divergent anchoring fibers at the base by means of which it stands erect in the soft mud at the bottom of the sea. Called also Venus's flower basket , and Venus's purse .

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Crosswords: VENUS'S BASKET

English words defined with "VENUS'S BASKET": Venus's purse. (references)

Anagrams: VENUS'S BASKET

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "'-a-b-e-e-k-n-s-s-s-t-u-v"
	-4 letters: suaveness.
	-5 letters: asbestus, baseness, knessets, netsukes, sensates, subsense, subtasks, subteens, subvenes, vastness.
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