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venus' flower basket

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Venus's flower basket

–noun
a glass sponge of the genus Euplectella, inhabiting deep waters off the Philippines and Japan, having a cylindrical skeleton formed of an intricate latticework of siliceous spicules.

Origin:
1870–75
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