pervious Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective admitting of passage or entrance
    • pervious soil
    • a metal pervious to heat

WordNet

Per"vi*ous adjective
Etymology
L. pervis; per + via a way. See Per-, and Voyage.
Definitions
  1. Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil.
    [Doors] . . . pervious to winds, and open every way. Pope.
  2. Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision. R.
    God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye. Jer. Taylor.
  3. Capable of penetrating or pervading. Obs. Prior.
  4. (Zoöl.) Open; -- used synonymously with perforate, as applied to the nostrils or birds.

Webster 1913