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Definition of Poriferous
1. Adjective. Full of pores or vessels or holes.
Similar to: Porose
Derivative terms: Pore, Pore, Pore, Porosity
Antonyms: Nonporous
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poriferous
Literary usage of Poriferous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (1888)
"The structure and growth of this species indicate it it represents one of the
simpler types of poriferous corals. For reason, its development is without the ..."
2. The Origin of Vertebrates by Walter Holbrook Gaskell (1908)
"poriferous sense- organs on the appendages in ... poriferous chordotonal
organs.—Balancers of Diptera.—Resemblance to organs of flabellum. ..."
3. ... Revision of the Echini by Alexander Agassiz (1872)
"What was striking in these fragments was the distinct continuation of the poriferous
zone beyond the ambulacra! rosette and beyond the ambitus, ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1857)
"... foliate expansion extending beyond the lateral processes; branches somewhat
strong and rounded on the non-poriferous side; connecting processes short; ..."
5. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1856)
"... foliate expansion extending beyond the lateral processes ; branches somewhat
strong and rounded on the non-poriferous side; connecting processes short; ..."
6. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1855)
"... reduced one-third; b, six plates with small poriferous tubercles from the ...
and arrangement of the tubercles in the poriferous zones; d, ..."
7. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1871)
"poriferous side of another specimen, a little enlarged. 5<i. Part of same, greatly
magnified, to show the arrangement of the pores, the mesial carina, ..."
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