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porous

adjective

1 porous

Able to absorb fluids.

Roget 252: depressed etc. v.; alveolate, calathiform, cup-shaped, dishing; favaginous, faveolate, favose; scyphiform, scyphose; concave, hollow, ... show more

Roget 252a: cellular, spongy, spongious; honeycombed, alveolar; sintered; porous (opening) 260.   

Roget 260: open; perforated etc. v.; perforate; wide open, ajar, unclosed, unstopped; oscitant, gaping, yawning; patent.    tubular, ... show more

2 porous

Full of pores or vessels or holes.

synonym: poriferous.

Dutch: poreus
Polish: porowaty

3 porous

Allowing passage in and out:
— Our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous.

synonym: holey.

Polish: dziurawy


Moby thesaurus: cribriform, excretory, exudative, leachy, leaky, oozy, penetrable, percolating, percolative, permeable, pervious, porose, runny, sievelike, spongelike, spongy, transudative, weepy.

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