cavernous

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}, {cavernous}]
    

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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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