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PORIFEROUS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does poriferous mean?
• PORIFEROUS (adjective)
The adjective PORIFEROUS has 1 sense:
1. full of pores or vessels or holes
Familiarity information: PORIFEROUS used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Full of pores or vessels or holes
Synonyms:
poriferous; porous
Similar:
porose (forming a continuous series of pores)
Derivation:
pore (any small opening in the skin or outer surface of an animal)
pore (any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid (fluid or gas))
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