spongelike

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The researchers first modeled spongelike environments on a computer and found that varying chamber sizes would allow many different bacterial strains to thrive.

From Scientific American • May 27, 2022

Dr. Amber Nolan points to a particularly shriveled, spongelike tip dangling from a section of the temporal lobe.

From Seattle Times • May 20, 2022

While it is true that some lovers leave indelible marks in one’s memory, a healthy brain remains spongelike and able to canonize new experience.

From Slate • Jun. 8, 2020

Take bryostatins, a family of 20 natural products first isolated in 1976 from spongelike marine creatures called bryozoans.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 19, 2017

He added commercial fertilizers and nitrates to it—the nitrates were, of course, distinct from the gaseous nitrogen that had been held, spongelike, by the subsoil, and had helped supply the greenhouse with atmosphere.

From Asteroid of Fear by Gallun, Raymond Z.