Venus's flower basket

noun

1. a glass sponge of the genus Euplectella, inhabiting deep waters off the Philippines and Japan, having a cylindrical skeleton formed of an intricate latticework of siliceous spicules.

Venus's flower basket

noun

1. any of several deep-sea sponges of the genus Euplectella, esp E. aspergillum, having a skeleton composed of interwoven glassy six-rayed spicules

Word History and Origins

Origin of Venus's flower basket¹

First recorded in 1870–75