leucon

[ loo-kon ]

noun

, Zoology.

1. a type of sponge having a thick body wall with a highly branched canal system leading into the spongocoel.

Word History and Origins

Origin of leucon¹

< New Latin < Greek leukón, noun use of neuter of leukós white

Example Sentences

But Leucon, the tyrant of Pontus, was a different kind of man, who when he knew that many of his friends had been plundered by one of the flatterers whom he had about him, perceiving that the man was calumniating some one of his remaining friends, said, "I swear by the gods that I would kill you if a tyrannical government did not stand in need of bad men."

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They maintained close relations with Athens, their best customers for the Bosporan corn export, of which Leucon I. set the staple at Theodosia, where the Attic ships were allowed special privileges.

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"Neither do I. Set your course Moonward, and tell Mr. Benson to keep his eyes peeled." he Moon Colony, discovered in 1976, when Kramer, of Baltimore, first proved the practicability of mixing neon with the inert new gas, leucon, and so conquering gravitation, had proved to be just what it had been suspected of being—a desiccated, airless desolation.

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Neon and nitrogen gas were being pumped under pressure into the outer shell, where a minute charge of leucon, the newly discovered element that helped to counteract gravitation, combined with them to provide the power that would lift the vessel above the regions of the stratosphere.

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"Leucon, who is called the Grey Weaver, told me," she explained smiling.

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