About The Word Porous
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Porous
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What's The Definition Of Porous?
[adj] full of pores or vessels or holes
[adj] allowing passage in and out; "our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous" [adj] able to absorb fluids; "the partly porous walls of our digestive system"; "compacting the soil to make it less porous" Synonyms | Synonyms for Porous: holey | leaky | permeable | poriferous | porose Related Terms | Find terms related to Porous: cribriform | excretory | exudative | leachy | leaky | oozy | penetrable | percolating | percolative | permeable | pervious | porose | runny | sievelike | spongelike | spongy | transudative | weepy See Also | Porous In Webster's Dictionary \Por"ous\, a. [Cf. F. poreux. See {Pore}, n.]
Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the
substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for
fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood.
``The veins of porous earth.'' --Milton.
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