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pori

pori is the plural of porus.

Meaning of porus

Noun

porus (plural pori)

  1. (dated) A pore.
    • […] sometimes both guard-cells flattened, only the porus being distinct.1923, J. W. Moll, Hindrik Haijo Janssonius, Botanical Pen-Portraits

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Proper noun capitalized: Pori

Pori

  1. A municipality, the capital city of the region of Satakunta, Finland.

Origin of pori

Borrowed from Finnish Pori.

Questions about pori

What does pori mean?
Pori means a municipality, the capital city of the region of Satakunta, Finland.
What is pori the plural of?
Pori is the plural of porus.
What part of speech is pori?
Pori is a proper noun.

Words near pori in the dictionary

  1. porgee
  2. porgees
  3. porgie
  4. porgies
  5. porgy
  6. pori
  7. poria
  8. poribacteria
  9. poribacterial
  10. poribacterium
  11. poricidal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pori (page history and authors); Pori (page history and authors); porus (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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