pervious
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Adjective (1)
- admitting of passage or entrance“pervious soil”“a metal pervious to heat”Opposite imperviableSimilar receptiveSee also permeable
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Per′vi·ous adjective
Origin: 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.
[Doors]... pervious to winds, and open every way.— Alexander Pope
2. Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision. rare
God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye.— Taylor, Jeremy
3. Capable of penetrating or pervading. obsolete Matthew Prior
4. Zoology Open; — used synonymously with perforate, as applied to the nostrils or birds.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54