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What is the adjective for pores?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb pore which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

porous
  1. Full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through.
  2. (legislation) full of loopholes
  3. (figuratively) With many gaps.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. permeable, pervious, penetrable, leaky, passable, holey, honeycombed, open, cellular, cavernulous, leachy, percolative, porose, foraminous, poriferous, pory, sieve-like, dripping, drippy, leaking, not watertight, pierceable, semipermeable, breathable, punctured, torn, worn, perforated, cracked, split, holed, broken, spongy, absorbent, absorptive, spongelike, spongiose, sponge-like, bibulous, thirsty, absorbant, assimilative, osmotic, imbibing, receptive, retentive, soaking, blotting, sorbefacient … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “A single slab is also a practical option because it's easier to clean than a surface broken up by porous grout lines.”
      “When it was first plowed, the soil was springy, spongy, and porous.”
      “By waterproofing the porous concrete, he eliminates the wet surface conditions that cause mildew.”
poriferous
  1. having pores
  2. of or related to the Porifera
  3. Synonyms:
      4. porous, permeable, pervious, penetrable, leaky, passable, holey, honeycombed, open, cellular, cavernulous, leachy, percolative, porose, foraminous, pory, sieve-like … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “Fixed to the same spot in the ocean as the tree to the land, the nutritive surface of the poriferous animal is always in contact with the water.”
      “In many specimens the anterior petals are delicate and the anterior poriferous zone narrows markedly towards the apical system.”
      “No nervous filaments were ever discovered in a poriferous animal.”
poromechanical
  1. Describing the mechanics of pores and their formation.
porogenic
  1. That creates pores, or increases porosity
poricidal
  1. (botany) Describing dehiscence through a pore
poriform
  1. Resembling a pore, or small puncture.
porelike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of pores.
  2. Examples:
      3. “The rhynchobdellids are strictly aquatic leeches that have small, porelike mouths in the oral sucker.”
poroid
  1. Having, or associated with pores
poreless
  1. Without pores.
pored
  1. simple past tense and past participle of pore
  2. Synonyms:
      3. studied, perused, examined, scrutinised, scrutinized, read, readen, scanned, regarded, went through, gone through, been through, went over, gone over, looked over, read intently, worked over, was absorbed in, been absorbed in, contemplated, pondered, considered, brooded, mused, dwelled on, reflected on, pored over, sized up, thought about, thought of, thought over, brooded over, chewed over, meditated on, mulled over, mused over, reflected upon, weighed up, brooded about, brooded on, deliberated, ruminated, meditated, cogitated, reflected, weighed, questioned, debated, revolved … more
poring
  1. present participle of pore
  2. Synonyms:
      3. studying, perusing, examining, scrutinising, scrutinizing, reading, scanning, regarding, going through, going over, looking over, reading intently, working over, contemplating, pondering, considering, brooding, musing, dwelling on, reflecting on, poring over, sizing up, thinking about, thinking of, thinking over, brooding over, chewing over, meditating on, mulling over, musing over, reflecting upon, weighing up, brooding about, brooding on, deliberating, ruminating, meditating, cogitating, reflecting, weighing, questioning, debating, revolving, entertaining, thinking, turning, perpending, eyeing, eying … more
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