Meanings
adjectiveporiferous (comparative more poriferous, superlative most poriferous)
comparative more poriferous · superlative most poriferous
- Having pores.
The poriferous zones form the line of demarcation between these two classes of columnar plates.
2015, Thomas Wright, Monograph on the British Fossil Echinodermata from the Cretaceous Formations - Of or related to the Porifera.
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Rhymes with poriferous
carboniferousseminiferouscruciferousmetalliferousfossiliferousodoriferousacetabuliferousacidiferousaeriferousaestiferousagatiferousalbuminiferousaliferousalkaliferousalumiferousaluminiferousamberiferousamentiferousammonitiferousamygdaliferousamyliferousanatiferousangeliferousantenniferous
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