porous.
Full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through.
Meaning & usage
Full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through.
Sponges are porous so they can filter water while trapping food.
Concrete is porous, so water will slowly filter through it.
With many gaps or loopholes.
Where this word comes from
From Old French poros, from Latin porus (“an opening”). By surface analysis, pore + -ous.
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