Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
admitting of passage or entrance;
- Example: "pervious soil"- Example: "a metal pervious to heat"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Pervious \Per"vi*ous\, a. [L. pervis; per + via a way. See
Per-, and Voyage.]
1. Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another
body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil.
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[Doors] . . . pervious to winds, and open every way.
--Pope.
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2. Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical
or mental vision. [R.]
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God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye. --Jer.
Taylor.
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3. Capable of penetrating or pervading. [Obs.] --Prior.
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4. (Zool.) Open; -- used synonymously with perforate, as
applied to the nostrils or birds.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
pervious
adj 1: admitting of passage or entrance; "pervious soil"; "a
metal pervious to heat" [ant: imperviable,
impervious]