Definition of Porose

1. Adjective. Forming a continuous series of pores. "A porose hymenium"

Similar to: Poriferous, Porous

Definition of Porose

1. porous [adj] - See also: porous

Lexicographical Neighbors of Porose

porocytoses
porocytosis
porodinous
poroelastic
poroelasticity
porogamy
porogenic
poromechanical
poromechanics
poromeric
poromerics
poroporo
pororoca
pororocas
porose (current term)
poroses
porosimeter
porosimetry
porosis
porosities
porosity
porosome
porosomes
porotic
porotics
porous
porously
porousness
porousnesses

Literary usage of Porose

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia: With Figures of All the Species by Charles Darwin (1854)
"Compartments six; parietes and basis non-porose: basis calcareous, cup-formed, not elongated, attached to sponges, or rarely to the bark of Isis. ..."

2. Manual of the Mosses of North America by Leo Lesquereux, Thomas Potts James (1884)
"... deeply emarginate or bidentate at the apex, the utricles fibrillose and porose: capsule immersed or short-pedicelled. ..."

3. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1866)
"... basis non-porose ; basil calcareous, cup-formed, not elongated : attached to sponges or rarely to the bark of 1 .-•!•=. This sub-genus, which is а тегу ..."

4. Mosses with Hand-lens and Microscope: A Non-technical Hand-book of the More by Abel Joel Grout (1903)
"Under the microscope the short angular non-porose upper cells and nearly smooth costa will differentiate it at once. From D. fuscescens it differs in its ..."

5. The American Journal of Science, & C (1818)
"Very branched, erect, red, papillose ; branches unequal, often dichotome, obtuse ; cells porose, oblong, nearly equal. It is often found on the common ..."

6. Flora australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian territory. by George Bentham, Ferdinand von Mueller (1866)
"Ovules 2. nearly globular, 2-porose, the connective not prominent. Style very long, W. Australia. Table Hill, Champion Bay, ..."

7. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1873)
"... and sparingly porose, chlorophyll cells central, much compressed; the leaves of the pendent branches with the point rounded and indistinctly toothed. ..."

8. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1900)
"Stem-cortex of 8-4 layers of irregular, rather wide non-porose cells. Stem-leaves large, about twice as long as wide, Ungulate (resembling those of S. ..."

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