Porous

3 definitions found

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

  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.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]

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

  18 Moby Thesaurus words for "porous":
     cribriform, excretory, exudative, leachy, leaky, oozy, penetrable,
     percolating, percolative, permeable, pervious, porose, runny,
     sievelike, spongelike, spongy, transudative, weepy