Meanings of very porous in English

They were a dirty grey, and very porous, like partly thawed snow.

Of this very porous rock most of the houses are built.

Being very porous, it will absorb five times its own volume of water.

One of these substances was of a snowy-white colour, light, and very porous.

The lava, very porous in certain places, took the form of little round blisters.

They are nanocomposite materials with very porous microstructures.

Blueberries love very porous, but damp soil.

The opera world is not very porous.

The walls here were brick, very porous.

To reduce their body weight, birds have lightweight bones, with a very porous structure that yet remains remarkably strong.

Weaknesses: Their defence can be very porous, especially when the tempo of the game is increased from the pedestrian.

There is a very large kind, the wood of which is almost as black as ebony, but very porous.

With the home defence looking very porous in the opening minutes, Armagh started brightly as Gavin McParland, Jamie Clarke and Kevin Dyas kicked early points.

Above the waist he resembled a muscular human, skin still deep blue and very porous, whose triangular face sported a blue-black goatee flecked with gray.

The US border is " very porous", said the 1940s-born New Yorker with the cult following, flyaway hair and occasional blind spot for foreign strongmen.