porous

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   allowing passage in and out

   Our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous.

2. 2
   adj

   able to absorb fluids

   The partly porous walls of our digestive system.

From Old French poros, from Latin porus (“an opening”). By surface analysis, pore + -ous.

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