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adjectivefull of pores or vessels or holes
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"our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous"adjectiveallowing passage in and out
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"the partly porous walls of our digestive system" "compacting the soil to make it less porous"adjectiveable to absorb fluids
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- size cover or stiffen or glaze a porous material with size or sizing (a glutinous substance)
- bone the porous calcified substance from which bones are made
- sponge primitive multicellular marine animal whose porous body is supported by a fibrous skeletal framework; usually occurs in sessile colonies
- sponge a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used
- squishy easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility
- lute a substance for packing a joint or coating a porous surface to make it impervious to gas or liquid
- spongy easily squashed; resembling a sponge in having soft porous texture and compressibility
- glassy (of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it
- osteoporosis abnormal loss of bony tissue resulting in fragile porous bones attributable to a lack of calcium; most common in postmenopausal women
- sealant a kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface)