Pervious vs Honeycombed - What's the difference?
pervious | honeycombed | Related terms |
Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable.
* Alexander Pope
Accepting of new ideas.
Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.
* (Jeremy Taylor)
(obsolete) Capable of penetrating or pervading.
(zoology) open; perforate, as applied to the nostrils of birds
Pervious is a related term of honeycombed.
As adjectives the difference between pervious and honeycombed
is that pervious is admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable while honeycombed is having a perforated structure, resembling a honeycomb.pervious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a pervious soil
- [Doors] pervious to winds, and open every way.
- God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye.
- (Prior)