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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.

 

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