Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Filled with caverns.
- adj. Resembling a cavern, as in depth, vastness, or effect: a cavernous yawn; cavernous echoes.
- adj. Anatomy Filled with cavities or hollow areas; porous.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Formed into a cavern or caverns; containing caverns; hence, deeply hollowed out; deep-set: as, cavernous mountains or rocks; cavernous eyes.
- Filled with small cavities, as a sponge; reticulated; honeycombed. Applied in anatomy to vessels or vascular structures in which the blood-vessels are traversed by numerous trabeculæ dividing them up, or in which they form frequent and close anastomoses with one another. In either case a structure of sponge-like texture is produced.
- the carotid groove (which see, under carotid).
- In petrography, porous or vesicular: applied to rocks some of whose minerals have been removed by solution.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow.
- adj. Filled with small cavities or cells.
- adj. Having a sound caused by a cavity.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. being or suggesting a cavern
- adj. filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood
Examples
“Is Howard, who shattered Schmidt's record with a mammoth blast in cavernous RFK Stadium on Thursday night, 2006's NL MVP?”
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“By then virtually the only Houston supporters left in cavernous Reliant Stadium were members of the school's band.”
“The team's game solid defense, great bullpen, discipline at the plate, speed to play little ball and enough power to scare people functions anywhere, whether in cavernous Comerica Park in Detroit or minute Fenway Park in Boston.”
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“Even so, only 22,326 went to the game in cavernous Network Associates Coliseum.”
“It was a sad-sweet time of sudden friendships, hasty, courtships and tearful farewells in cavernous railway stations.”
“I remember thinking that if our species dwelled in cavernous outcroppings buried deep underground and so had yet to discover the earth's surface, brilliant sunlight, an ocean breeze, and the stars that lie beyond, or if evolution had proceeded along a different pathway and we had yet to acquire any but the sense of touch, so everything we knew came only from our tactile impressions of our immediate environment, or if human mental faculties stopped developing during early childhood so our emotional and analytical skills never progressed beyond those of a five-year-oldin short, if our experiences painted but a paltry portrait of realityour appraisal of life would be thoroughly compromised.”
“All that remains of the primary head vein is the cardinal portion or internal jugular and the part in the region of the trigeminal nerve which may be called the cavernous sinus.”
“There was a lump in Westmoreland's brain, a mass of cells known as a cavernous malformation.”
“Westmoreland's motor skills, coordination, speech and vision are far better than they were in the weeks following his March 16 surgery, when doctors removed a raspberry-sized pack of blood vessels known as a cavernous malformation from his brain stem.”
“Shultz said he was fired after missing work to be with his daughter Olivia, who suffers from a vascular disease called cavernous hemangioma - jumbles of blood vessels that can become greatly enlarged, impeding organ function and breathing.”
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