Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having pores.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Provided with pores; specifically, of or pertaining to the Porifera; poriferal: distinguished from
osculiferous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective full of pores or vessels or holes
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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-- The ambulacral areas are narrow, but the poriferous zones are rather wide; and the interambulacral areas are about four times as wide as the ambulacral.
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T crm customer relationship as a domingo poriferous the spoof staidness, but it may go practically as an seedy walkabout lexicon in this parts.
Rational Review 2009
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In effect, we have a possible similarity with the Colombia of the '80s: the economic, social, and arms strength of drug trafficking on one side, and the poriferous and corrupt politicians, from police and military structures and some top public servants administering highways, airports, customs, or ports, on the other.
The Narco News Bulletin Carlos Montemayor 2008
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