a three-dimensional object that is full of holes throughout. The meanings
overlap (my bath sponge is both), but I don't see how the word is extended to
corals, which belong to the Cnidaria and don't have holes throughout. Can
someone explain? What should we call sponges, in the Porifera sense? What
should we call corals?
Maybe it means "mostly untravelling spineless critters in oceans," but that doesn't cover the general "porous material" sense (does holystone count?) . I think the creators went off in two directions from the Porifera and failed to reconcile them. The emphasis is clearly on the porous, though,. I suppose that Porifera are {panje danlu}, "spongy critters" or whatever fu'ivlos out of {danlu porifera}. Individual corals and certain coral structures are not very beholed, but at least some types of coral reefs are -- as well as some other coral structures (brains, e.g.). Maybe that is a further ground for the slide.
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