Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having pores.
- adj. Of or relating to the poriferans.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Provided with pores; specifically, of or pertaining to the Porifera; poriferal: distinguished from osculiferous.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. full of pores or vessels or holes
Etymologies
- New Latin porus, pore; see poriferan + -ferous. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“-- The ambulacral areas are narrow, but the poriferous zones are rather wide; and the interambulacral areas are about four times as wide as the ambulacral.”
“T crm customer relationship as a domingo poriferous the spoof staidness, but it may go practically as an seedy walkabout lexicon in this parts.”
“In effect, we have a possible similarity with the Colombia of the '80s: the economic, social, and arms strength of drug trafficking on one side, and the poriferous and corrupt politicians, from police and military structures and some top public servants administering highways, airports, customs, or ports, on the other.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘poriferous’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pabouche, pabulous, pabulum, pacable, pace, pachydermia, pachyglossal, pachymeter, pachynsis, paciferous, pacificate, pactolian and 1766 more...
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Life is rife .................
-ife- & -iferous : common and not-so-common words about life
fructiferous, ifere, glomuliferous, graniferous, guttiferales, lifen, manifest, nimbiferous, oviferous, roriferous, petaliferous, rangifer and 105 more...
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Bearing and Carrying
Words with the -fer suffix ("that which carries") or the -ferous suffix ("bearing," "producing," or "yielding").
aligerous, aluminiferous, antenniferous, argentiferous, armigerous, arundiferous, auriferous, bacciferous, balaniferous, barbigerous, belliferous, brachiferous and 187 more...
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Carry Me Home
Another kind of bear list: words bearing the -fer suffix ("that which carries"), the -ferous suffix ("bearing," "producing," or "yielding").
Also see (if you like) Carry Me Home Again.aquifer, conifer, umbellifer, transfer, thurifer, defer, telfer, suffer, rotifer, refer, foraminifer, poriferous and 157 more...
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Porosity
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