plumose skeleton

plumose skeleton
(PORIFERA)
A type of skeletal construction having diverging fibers or spicule tracts showing few if any cross-connections; see plumoreticulate skeleton.

Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. . 2005.

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