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Meaning of porous

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  porous
      adj 1: able to absorb fluids; "the partly porous walls of our
             digestive system"; "compacting the soil to make it less
             porous"
      2: full of pores or vessels or holes [syn: {porous},
         {poriferous}] [ant: {nonporous}]
      3: allowing passage in and out; "our unfenced and largely
         unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous" [syn:
         {holey}, {porous}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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