Found 3 items, similar to porous.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: porous
keropos, menyerap
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: porous
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:
poriferous] [ant:
nonporous]
3: allowing passage in and out;
“our unfenced and largely
unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous” [syn:
holey]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Porous
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.
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