Word Meanings - PERMEABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Capable of being permeated, or passed through; yielding passage; passable; penetrable; -- used especially of substances which allow the passage of fluids; as, wood is permeable to oil; glass is permeable to light. I. Taylor.
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- FORAMINOUS
Having foramina; full of holes; porous. Bacon. - POROUSNESS
1. The quality of being porous. 2. The open parts; the interstices of anything. They will forcibly get into the porousness of it. Sir K. Digby. - PENETRABLE
Capable of being penetrated, entered, or pierced. Used also figuratively. And pierce his only penetrable part. Dryden. I am not made of stones, But penetrable to your kind entreats. Shak. -- Pen"e*tra*ble*ness, n. -- Pen"e*tra*bly, adv. - PERVIOUS
Open; -- used synonymously with perforate, as applied to the nostrils or birds. (more info) 1. Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil. . . . pervious to winds, and open every - PERMEABLE
Capable of being permeated, or passed through; yielding passage; passable; penetrable; -- used especially of substances which allow the passage of fluids; as, wood is permeable to oil; glass is permeable to light. I. Taylor. - PERVIOUSNESS
The quality or state of being pervious; as, the perviousness of glass. Boyle. - POROUS
Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood. "The veins of porous earth." Milton. - POROUSLY
In a porous manner. - POLYSPOROUS
Containing many spores. - IMPENETRABLENESS
The quality of being impenetrable; impenetrability. - HETEROSPORIC; HETEROSPOROUS
Producing two kinds of spores unlike each other. - UNPENETRABLE
Impenetrable. - THECASPOROUS
Having the spores in thecæ, or cases. - VAPOROUS
1. Having the form or nature of vapor. Holland. 2. Full of vapors or exhalations. Shak. The warmer and more vaporous air of the valleys. Derham. 3. Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent. Bacon. The food which is most vaporous and perspirable - ENDOSPOROUS
Having the spores contained in a case; -- applied to fungi. - SAPOROUS
Having flavor or taste; yielding a taste. Bailey. - IMPENETRABLE
Having the property of preventing any other substance from occupying the same space at the same time. 3. Inaccessible, as to knowledge, reason, sympathy, etc.; unimpressible; not to be moved by arguments or motives; as, an impenetrable mind, or - ISOSPOROUS
Producing but one kind of spore, as the ferns. - IMPOROUS
Destitute of pores; very close or compact in texture; solid. Sir T. Browne. - VAPOROUSNESS
The quality of being vaporous. - ACROSPOROUS
Having acrospores. - ANGIOSPOROUS
Having spores contained in cells or thecæ, as in the case of some fungi.