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Polysporous :: Polysporous (a.) Containing many spores.

Amygdaloid :: Amygdaloid (n.) A variety of trap or basaltic rock, containing small cavities, occupied, wholly or in part, by nodules or geodes of different minerals, esp. agates, quartz, calcite, and the zeolites. When the imbedded minerals are detached or removed by decomposition, it is porous, like lava..

Vaporous :: Vaporous (a.) Full of vapors or exhalations.

Cupel :: Cupel (n.) A shallow porous cup, used in refining precious metals, commonly made of bone ashes (phosphate of lime)..

Foraminous :: Foraminous (a.) Having foramina; full of holes; porous.

Cancellated :: Cancellated (a.) Open or spongy, as some porous bones..

Vaporousness :: Vaporousness (n.) The quality of being vaporous.

Percolate :: Percolate (v. i.) To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone..

Adarce :: Adarce (n.) A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy..

Pory :: Pory (a.) Porous; as, pory stone. [R.] Dryden..

Soak :: Soak (v. i.) To enter (into something) by pores or interstices; as, water soaks into the earth or other porous matter..

Sipage :: Sipage (n.) Water that seeped or oozed through a porous soil.

Stean :: Steamy (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, steam; full of steam; vaporous; misty..

Vaporous :: Vaporous (a.) Having the form or nature of vapor.

Scillain :: Scillain (n.) A glucoside extracted from squill (Scilla) as a light porous substance.

Steamship :: Steaminess (n.) The quality or condition of being steamy; vaporousness; mistness.

Stereometric :: Stereometer (n.) An instrument for determining the specific gravity of liquid bodies, porous bodies, and powders, as well as solids..

Soporous :: Soporous (a.) Causing sleep; sleepy.

Rarefy :: Rarefy (v. i.) To become less dense; to become thin and porous.

Porous :: Porous (n.) 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..

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