Porous - Definition
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]