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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. being or suggesting a cavern;
- Example: "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;
- Example: "erectile tissue"
- Example: "the penis is an erectile organ"
[syn: erectile, cavernous]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cavernous \Cav"ern*ous\, a. [L. cavernosus: cf. F. caverneux.] 1. Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow. [1913 Webster] 2. Filled with small cavities or cells. [1913 Webster] 3. Having a sound caused by a cavity. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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