combining form, after L. types, of SPONGE sb.1, occurring in a few terms, as Spongiculture, Spongiferous a.
1833–4. J. Phillips, Geol., in Encycl. Metrop. (1845), VI. 656. Traces of spongiferous bodies.
1876. Page, Adv. Text-bk. Geol., xviii. 353. The spongiferous cherts of the Portland and coralline oolites.
1902. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 10), XXXII. 813/2. Sponges in Commerce, Spongiculture.
