polyporous

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adjective

Having or involving many pores.

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Meanings

adjectivepolyporous (comparative more polyporous, superlative most polyporous)

comparative more polyporous · superlative most polyporous

  1. Having or involving many pores.

    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

    1890, Manchester Microscopical Society, Transactions and Annual Report
  2. Relating to the fungus genus Polyporus.

Origin

From poly- + porous.

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