Porous Definition & Meaning

porous
adjective
  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
  3. allowing passage in and out; "our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous"

"Porous" in song lyrics

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  • "Which made the earth porous"
    Latryx — Storm Warning

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