bath sponge

noun

1

: a sponge used in or for bathing

2

: any of several fairly large sponges (family Spongidae) lacking spicules and having elastic skeletons of spongin that are gathered commercially in the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico

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