Meanings
nounspongology (uncountable)
- uncountablebiologyThe study of sponges.
Spongology, the study of all aspects of the sponge biology, ecology, taxonomy, and chemistry of sponges, has full fledged into a discipline attracting a progressively increasing population of hundreds of scientists worldwide, numerous of whom devote a lifetime career to the study of this group.
2016, Ramjee Pallela, Marine Sponges: Chemicobiological and Biomedical Applications
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