Cavernous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cavernous \Cav"ern*ous\, a. [L. cavernosus: cf. F. caverneux.]
     1. Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity;
        hollow.
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     2. Filled with small cavities or cells.


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     3. Having a sound caused by a cavity.
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     {Cavernous body}, a body of erectile tissue with large
        interspaces which may be distended with blood, as in the
        penis or clitoris.
  
     {Cavernous respiration}, a peculiar respiratory sound andible
        on auscultation, when the bronchial tubes communicate with
        morbid cavities in the lungs.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cavernous
       adj 1: being or suggesting a cavern; "vast cavernous chambers
              hollowed out of limestone"
       2: filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming
          distended and rigid as the result of being filled with
          blood; "erectile tissue"; "the penis is an erectile organ"
          [syn: {erectile}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  53 Moby Thesaurus words for "cavernous":
     abysmal, abyssal, boat-shaped, boatlike, bottomless, bowl-shaped,
     bowllike, cavelike, commodious, concave, concaved, craterlike,
     cup-shaped, cupped, cymbiform, deep as hell, dish-shaped, dished,
     dishing, dishlike, fathomless, funnel-breasted, funnel-chested,
     funnel-shaped, gaping, hollow, hollowed, incurved, incurving,
     incurvous, infundibular, infundibuliform, navicular, naviform,
     plumbless, plunging, retiring, retreating, reverberant,
     saucer-shaped, scaphoid, scyphate, sepulchral, soundless,
     spoonlike, sunk, sunken, unfathomable, unfathomed, unsounded, vast,
     without bottom, yawning