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porose, a.|pɒˈrəʊs|
[ad. L. type *porōs-us (in mod.L.); in It. and Sp. poroso.]
Containing or abounding in pores; porous; now rare exc. in Zool., said of corals of the division Perforata, as opposed to the Aporosa, and of the sculpture of insects dotted or pitted as if with minute holes.
[c1400: see porous.] 1656Blount Glossogr., Porose or Porous (porosus), full of pores or little holes. Bacon. 1697A. de la Pryme Diary (Surtees) 147 There is a most delicate fine freestone,..but so porose.. that, troughs being made of it, it will let the water run out for a year or two. 1715Cheyne Philos. Princ. Relig. i. (1716) 15 These Porose Bodies must be equally heavy with the most compact ones. 1826Kirby & Sp. Entomol. IV. 270 Porose, beset with many pores. Ex. Elytra of most Apions.
Hence poˈroseness = porosity.
1746Arderon in Phil. Trans. XLIV. 282 note, The Nature of these Horns seems..changed into that of Chalk; only retaining their outward Form, and the Poroseness of their inward Parts. |