Polyporous

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having or involving many pores.

    "So again , in the group of Echinidæ , the members of the comparatively recent polyporous group , in which each ambulacral plate bears more than three pairs of ambulacral pores"

  2. 2
    Relating to the fungus genus Polyporus.

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"So again , in the group of Echinidæ , the members of the comparatively recent polyporous group , in which each ambulacral plate bears more than three pairs of ambulacral pores"

Etymology

From poly- + porous.

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