Cavernous

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  • adjective. Filled with caverns.
  • adjective. Resembling a cavern, as in depth, vastness, or effect.
  • adjective. Filled with cavities or hollow areas; porous.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In petrography, porous or vesicular: applied to rocks some of whose minerals have been removed by solution.
  • Formed into a cavern or caverns; containing caverns; hence, deeply hollowed out; deep-set: as, cavernous mountains or rocks; cavernous eyes.
  • Filled with small cavities, as a sponge; reticulated; honeycombed.
  • the carotid groove (which see, under carotid).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow.
  • adjective. Filled with small cavities or cells.
  • adjective. Having a sound caused by a cavity.
  • adjective. a body of erectile tissue with large interspaces which may be distended with blood, as in the penis or clitoris.
  • adjective. a peculiar respiratory sound andible on auscultation, when the bronchial tubes communicate with morbid cavities in the lungs.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. resembling a cavern; vast
  • adjective. having many caverns
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. being or suggesting a cavern
  • adjective. filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood
  • Word Usage
    "Is Howard, who shattered Schmidt's record with a mammoth blast in cavernous RFK Stadium on Thursday night, 2006's NL MVP?"
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