porous

adjectives

able to absorb fluids

"the partly porous walls of our digestive system"; "compacting the soil to make it less porous"

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allowing fluids or gases to pass or diffuse through

"permeable membranes"; "rock that is permeable by water"

full of pores or vessels or holes

poriferous, porous

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allowing passage in and out

"our unfenced and largely unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous"

holey, porous

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