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porous |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Porous \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: porous adj 1: able to absorb fluids; "the partly porous walls of our digestive system"; "compacting the soil to make it less porous" 2: full of pores or vessels or holes [syn: {poriferous}] [ant: {nonporous}] 3: allowing passage in and out "our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous" [syn: {holey}]
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