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Roration vs Poration - What's the difference?

roration | poration |

As nouns the difference between roration and poration

is that roration is a falling of dew while poration is (biology) the formation of pores in a surface, or the pattern of such pores.

roration

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A falling of dew.
    • With dawn we see the mark of yesternight’s roration .
  • * 1810 : James Kennedy, Glenochel: A Descriptive Poem in Two Volumes , volume 1, page 50
    • That in the bland rorations calm
    ?Their luscious redolence receive,
    And, with a still, ambrosial balm,
    ?Aromatize the breath of eve.

    Related terms

    * (l) (obsolete)

    References

    * The Universal Etymological English Dictionary'' (1727), volume II of ''
    ??A Falling of Dew. * “ ro?ration²]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989

    poration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biology) The formation of pores in a surface, or the pattern of such pores