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poriferous

ADJECTIVE
  1. full of pores or vessels or holes

How To Use poriferous In A Sentence

  • Their outer ends are covered over by a dermal poriferous membrane.
  • -- 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. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
  • No nervous filaments were ever discovered in a poriferous animal.
  • -- 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. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
  • The entire surface is poriferous.
  • In many specimens the anterior petals are delicate and the anterior poriferous zone narrows markedly towards the apical system.
  • 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.
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