porous

adj 1: able to absorb fluids; "the partly porous walls of our

digestive system"; "compacting the soil to make it

less porous"

2: full of pores or vessels or holes [syn: {poriferous}] [ant:

{nonporous}]

3: allowing passage in and out; "our unfenced and largely

unpoliced border inevitably has been very porous" [syn: {holey}]