Pervious

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Open to passage or entrance; permeable.
  • adj. Open to arguments, ideas, or change; approachable.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.
  • adj. Accepting of new ideas.
  • adj. Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.
  • adj. Capable of penetrating or pervading.
  • adj. open; perforate, as applied to the nostrils of birds
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.
  • adj. Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.
  • adj. Capable of penetrating or pervading.
  • adj. Open; -- used synonymously with perforate, as applied to the nostrils or birds.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Capable of being penetrated or permeated by something else: affording entrance, admission, or passage; penetrable; permeable.
  • Pervading; permeating.
  • Open; patent; patulous; perforate: applied in anatomy and zoölogy to organs which may be impervious at some time, or under some circumstances.
  • In botany, possessing an opening or passageway.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. admitting of passage or entrance
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    receptive   
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    porous    permeable   
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    permeable    open    penetrable    diathermanous   
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