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Webster 1913 Edition
Hyalonema
‖
Hyˊa-lo-ne′ma
,Noun.
[NL., fr. Gr.
ὕαλοσ
glass + [GREEK] a thread.] (Zool.)
A genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composed of very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted together like the strands of a color. The stem of the Japanese species (
Hyalonema Sieboldii
), called glass-rope
, has long been in use as an ornament. See Glass-rope
.