porous   (Sound)

The adj porous has 3 senses

• porous -- (able to absorb fluids; "the partly porous walls of our digestive system"; "compacting the soil to make it less porous")


• porous, poriferous -- (full of pores or vessels or holes)


• holey, porous -- (allowing passage in and out; "our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous")