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Meaning of 'porous' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Porous [ 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.

Meaning of 'porous' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . porous [ s]
Meaning (1):
- able to absorb fluids
Example in sentence:
  • compacting the soil to make it less porous;
  • the partly porous walls of our digestive system
Meaning (2):
- allowing passage in and out
Example in sentence:
  • our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous

Nearby Words:

poraille porbeagle porcate porcelain porcelainized porcelaneous porcelanite porcelanous porcellaneous porcellanous

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