VENUS'S FLOWER BASKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Venus's flower basket mean? 

• VENUS'S FLOWER BASKET (noun)
  The noun VENUS'S FLOWER BASKET has 1 sense:

1. a deep-water marine sponge having a cylindrical skeleton of intricate glassy latticework; found in the waters of the East Indies and the eastern coast of Asia

  Familiarity information: VENUS'S FLOWER BASKET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VENUS'S FLOWER BASKET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A deep-water marine sponge having a cylindrical skeleton of intricate glassy latticework; found in the waters of the East Indies and the eastern coast of Asia

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Venus's flower basket" is a kind of...):

glass sponge (a siliceous sponge (with glassy spicules) of the class Hyalospongiae)

Holonyms ("Venus's flower basket" is a member of...):

Euplectella; genus Euplectella (a genus of Hyalospongiae)