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imporous

imporous adjective: not porous; not having pores.

Adjective

imporous (not comparable)

  1. not porous; not having pores
    • having its earthy and salinous parts so exactly resolved, that its body is left imporous, and not discreted by atomical terminations1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
    • If magnetism were not an immaterial substance, then any practically imporous body intervening between the magnet and the attracted object would, to some extent at least, impede the passage of the magnetic current1892, “Lucifer: A Theosophical Magazine”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)

Origin of imporous

From im- + porous.

Words formed from imporous

Questions about imporous

What does imporous mean?
Imporous means not porous; not having pores.
What part of speech is imporous?
Imporous is an adjective.

Words near imporous in the dictionary

  1. impoors
  2. impopular
  3. impopularity
  4. impopularly
  5. imporosity
  6. imporous
  7. import
  8. importability
  9. importable
  10. importables
  11. importably

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