Meaning of POROUS
| Pronunciation: | | 'powrus
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | holey, leaky, permeable, poriferous, porose |
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| | Antonyms: | | nonporous | | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | cribriform, excretory, exudative, leachy, leaky, oozy, penetrable, percolating, percolative, permeable, pervious, porose, runny, sievelike, spongelike, spongy, transudative, weepy |
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