Meanings
nounzimocca (plural zimoccas)
plural zimoccas
- The marine sponge Spongia zimocca.
All types of Mediterranean sponges are found off the coast of Libya, but zimoccas and honeycombs are more common, especially on the Tripoli grounds.
1948, World Trade in Sponges1 more example
We are shown the fine Turkey-cup or Levantine sponges, the African Zimoccas, the West-Indian grass-sponges and wire-sponges, the great elephants' ears from the Philippines, and many more […]
1928, Sir James Hopwood Jeans, The physics of the universe
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