porous : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: porous	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for porous
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
porous adj able to absorb fluids; "the partly porous walls of our digestive system"; "compacting the soil to make it less porous" full of pores or vessels or holes Synonym(s): porous, poriferous Antonym(s): nonporous allowing passage in and out; "our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous" Synonym(s): holey, porous
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. [bd]The veins of porous earth.[b8] --Milton.