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- English Word Porgy Definition Any one of several species of embiotocoids, or surf fishes, of the Pacific coast. The name is also given locally to several other fishes, as the bur fish.
- English Word Porifera Definition A grand division of the Invertebrata, including the sponges; -- called also Spongiae, Spongida, and Spongiozoa. The principal divisions are Calcispongiae, Keratosa or Fibrospongiae, and Silicea.
- English Word Poriferan Definition One of the Polifera.
- English Word Poriferata Definition The Polifera.
- English Word Poriform Definition Resembling a pore, or small puncture.
- English Word Porime Definition A theorem or proposition so easy of demonstration as to be almost self-evident.
- English Word Poriness Definition Porosity.
- English Word Poring Definition of Pore
- English Word Porism Definition A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions.
- English Word Porism Definition A corollary.
- English Word Porismatic Definition Alt. of Porismatical
- English Word Porismatical Definition Of or pertaining to a porism; poristic.
- English Word Poristic Definition Alt. of Poristical
- English Word Poristical Definition Of or pertaining to a porism; of the nature of a porism.
- English Word Porite Definition Any coral of the genus Porites, or family Poritidae.
- English Word Porites Definition An important genus of reef-building corals having small twelve-rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species are branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms.
- English Word Pork Definition The flesh of swine, fresh or salted, used for food.
- English Word Porker Definition A hog.
- English Word Porket Definition A young hog; a pig.
- English Word Porkling Definition A pig; a porket.
- English Word Porkwood Definition The coarse-grained brownish yellow wood of a small tree (Pisonia obtusata) of Florida and the West Indies. Also called pigeon wood, beefwood, and corkwood.
- English Word Pornerastic Definition Lascivious; licentious.
- English Word Pornographic Definition Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing.
- English Word Pornography Definition Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.
- English Word Pornography Definition A treatise on prostitutes, or prostitution.
- English Word Porosity Definition The quality or state of being porous; -- opposed to density.
- English Word Porotic Definition A medicine supposed to promote the formation of callus.
- English Word Porous Definition Full of pores; having interstices in the skin or in the substance of the body; having spiracles or passages for fluids; permeable by liquids; as, a porous skin; porous wood.
- English Word Porously Definition In a porous manner.
- English Word Porousness Definition The quality of being porous.