Word.ws English Dictionary

Badiaga

Badiaga noun: a freshwater sponge (genus Spongilla) formerly used to treat bruises, pleurisy, scrofula, etc.

Noun

Badiaga (uncountable)

  1. A freshwater sponge (genus Spongilla) formerly used to treat bruises, pleurisy, scrofula, etc.

Origin of Badiaga

From Russian бадя́га (badjága).

Questions about Badiaga

What does Badiaga mean?
Badiaga means a freshwater sponge (genus Spongilla) formerly used to treat bruises, pleurisy, scrofula, etc.
What part of speech is Badiaga?
Badiaga is a noun.

Words near Badiaga in the dictionary

  1. Badham
  2. badhan
  3. badhans
  4. Badhwar
  5. Badia
  6. Badiaga
  7. badian
  8. Badiang
  9. Badiangan
  10. Badiangon
  11. Badians

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Badiaga (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Badiaga.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/badiaga. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.