adjective

• (of rock or other material) full of minute cavities; porous.

  ‘The remaining mass was rugged and cavernulous.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Copper will not cast either solid or tenacious, but is cavernulous and weak.’
  • ‘The two species have the same open, cavernulous, skeleton structure.’
  • ‘The surface of the marble itself is rendered rough and cavernulous.’
  • ‘A hard greenish honeycombed cavernulous or vermiculated sandstone lies scattered at intervals’

  Synonyms

  permeable, penetrable, pervious