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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. able to absorb fluids;
- Example: "the partly porous walls of our digestive system"
- Example: "compacting the soil to make it less porous"

2. full of pores or vessels or holes;
[syn: porous, poriferous]

3. allowing passage in and out;
- Example: "our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous"
[syn: holey, porous]



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]


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]


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