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ลองค้นหาคำในรูปแบบอื่น ๆ เพื่อให้ได้ผลลัพธ์มากขึ้นหรือน้อยลง: -porou-, *porou*
Possible hiragana form: ぽろう
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WordNet (3.0)
porous(adj) able to absorb fluids, Example: the partly porous walls of our digestive system; compacting the soil to make it less porous
porous(adj) full of pores or vessels or holes, Syn. poriferous, Ant. nonporous

The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
Porous

a. [ Cf. F. poreux. See Pore, n. ] Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood. “The veins of porous earth.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Porously

adv. In a porous manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Porousness

n. 1. The quality of being porous. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The open parts; the interstices of anything. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They will forcibly get into the porousness of it. Sir K. Digby. [ 1913 Webster ]

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