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porus

porus noun: a pore.

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

Proper noun capitalized: Porus

Porus

  1. A village in Manchester parish, Jamaica.

porus meaning in Tamil

porus in Tamil

திறப்பு, புரை, துளை

Forms of porus

pluralpori

Origin of porus

One theory expounded by Wikipedia is that is from porous, for porous soil. Another is that it is from Porras, a captain on the 2nd voyage of Columbus when he landed in Jamaica (Ralway Magazine, November-December 1945, page 340).

Questions about porus

What does porus mean?
Porus means a pore.
What is porus in Tamil?
Porus in Tamil is திறப்பு, புரை, துளை. See Porus meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is porus?
Porus can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of porus?
The plural of porus is pori.

Words near porus in the dictionary

  1. porule
  2. porules
  3. porulose
  4. porulous
  5. Porumbacu de Jos
  6. porus
  7. Porush
  8. poruwa
  9. poruwas
  10. Porvoo
  11. Porvorim

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Adapted from Wiktionary: porus (page history and authors); Porus (page history and authors); porus (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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