Adjective: porous po-rus
- Able to absorb fluids
"the partly porous walls of our digestive system"; "compacting the soil to make it less porous"
- Full of pores, vessels or holes
"The porous sponge absorbed water quickly";
- poriferous
- Allowing passage in and out
"our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous";
- holey
See also: leaky, permeable, porose
Encyclopedia: Porous