polyporous

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

poly- +‎ porous

Adjective[edit]

polyporous (comparative more polyporous, superlative most polyporous)

  1. Having or involving many pores.
    • 1890, Manchester Microscopical Society, Transactions and Annual Report:
      So again , in the group of Echinidæ , the members of the comparatively recent polyporous group , in which each ambulacral plate bears more than three pairs of ambulacral pores