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- noun Plural form of
pore . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
pore .
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Examples
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Chiggers attach to skin pores and feed on skin cells for a few days, most often in the warm creases of the body.
hey i just got a nest of deer ticks on me but i cant c them any more how do i get them off
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Chiggers attach to skin pores and feed on skin cells for a few days, most often in the warm creases of the body.
hey i just got a nest of deer ticks on me but i cant c them any more how do i get them off
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 For example, Carl has no nostrils, skin pores or holes in his ears.
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Skin is a process involving little holes called pores.
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Some, however, of the thick-skinned animals are fine-haired for the cause previously stated, for the finer the pores are the finer must the hairs be.
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The hairs of your pores are the twenty-one thousand arhats;
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By means of more than 2,500,000 small openings in the skin, called the pores, communication is established between the external and the internal parts of the body.
Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration
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The pores are the orifices of minute convoluted tubes which lie beneath the skin, and when straightened measure each about the tenth of an inch, or, according to a writer in the _British and Foreign
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It comes through many tiny holes in the skin, called pores (pōrz).
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These authors, in giving the character of Grammatophora gaimardii and G. decresii, appears to place great reliance on the one having tubular and the other non-tubular femoral pores, which is a fact entirely dependent on the state in which the animal might be at the time when it was put into the spirits, as I have verified by comparing numerous specimens of different reptiles furnished with these pores.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
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