porous
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- able to absorb fluids
- "the partly porous walls of our digestive system"
- "compacting the soil to make it less porous"
- allowing passage in and out
- "our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous"
Adjective
- full of pores or vessels or holes
Adj
- Full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through.
- With many gaps or loopholes.
Origin / Etymology
From Old French poros, from Latin porus (“an opening”). By surface analysis, pore + -ous.
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Scrabble Score: 8
porous is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordporous is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
porous is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 10
porous is a valid Words With Friends word