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cavernous

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Adjective

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cav=ern=ous

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective cavernous has 2 senses

cavernous(s = adj.all) Array - being or suggesting a cavern; "vast cavernous chambers hollowed out of limestone"

Derived form noun cavern₂

cavernous(s = adj.all) erectile - filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood; "erectile tissue"; "the penis is an erectile organ"

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CIDE DICTIONARY

cavernous, a. [L. cavernosus: cf. F. caverneux.].

Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow. [1913 Webster]
Filled with small cavities or cells. [1913 Webster]
Having a sound caused by a cavity. [1913 Webster]

Cavernous body, a body of erectile tissue with large interspaces which may be distended with blood, as in the penis or clitoris. -- Cavernous respiration, a peculiar respiratory sound andible on auscultation, when the bronchial tubes communicate with morbid cavities in the lungs.

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THESAURUS

cavernous

abysmal, abyssal, boat-shaped, boatlike, bottomless, bowl-shaped, bowllike, cavelike, commodious, concave, concaved, craterlike, cup-shaped, cupped, cymbiform, deep as hell, dish-shaped, dished, dishing, dishlike, fathomless, funnel-breasted, funnel-chested, funnel-shaped, gaping, hollow, hollowed, incurved, incurving, incurvous, infundibular, infundibuliform, navicular, naviform, plumbless, plunging, retiring, retreating, reverberant, saucer-shaped, scaphoid, scyphate, sepulchral, soundless, spoonlike, sunk, sunken, unfathomable, unfathomed, unsounded, vast, without bottom, yawning

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Concavity

N concavity, depression, dip, hollow, hollowness, indentation, intaglio, cavity, dent, dint, dimple, follicle, pit, sinus, alveolus, lacuna, excavation, strip mine, trough, honeycomb, cup, basin, crater, punch bowl, cell, socket, valley, vale, dale, dell, dingle, combe, bottom, slade, strath, glade, grove, glen, cave, cavern, cove, grot, grotto, alcove, cul-de- sac, gully, arch, bay, excavator, sapper, miner, honeycomb (sponge), depressed, alveolate, calathiform, cup-shaped, dishing, favaginous, faveolate, favose, scyphiform, scyphose, concave, hollow, stove in, retiring, retreating, cavernous, porous, infundibul, infundibular, infundibuliform, funnel shaped, bell shaped, campaniform, capsular, vaulted, arched.

Rarity

N rarity, tenuity, absence of solidity, subtility, subtilty, subtlety, sponginess, compressibility, rarefaction, expansion, dilatation, inflation, subtilization, vaporization, evaporation, diffusion, gassification, ether, rare, subtile, thin, fine, tenuous, compressible, flimsy, slight, light, cavernous, spongy, rarefied, unsubstantial, uncompact, incompressed, rarefiable.

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