spongework
English
Etymology
From
sponge
+
-work
.
Noun
spongework
(
uncountable
)
Spongy
material
.
1956
, J. Harlen Bretz,
Caves of Missouri
, page
233
:
One tubular "pore" is capable of being crawled into and through, so that one emerges again in the passage 16 feet farther along. But there is no other
spongework
in the entire cavern.