/ · 1894 Brewer’s · M · Mermaid’s Glove [Chalina oculata]
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the largest of British sponges, so called because its branches resemble fingers.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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