porous

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
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: {porous},
       {poriferous}] [ant: {nonporous}]
    3: allowing passage in and out; "our unfenced and largely
       unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous" [syn:
       {holey}, {porous}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
18 Moby Thesaurus words for "porous":
      cribriform, excretory, exudative, leachy, leaky, oozy, penetrable,
      percolating, percolative, permeable, pervious, porose, runny,
      sievelike, spongelike, spongy, transudative, weepy
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