Having holes or pores; pierced with small openings.
Latin foramen (hole) + -ous (full of, having the quality of). An older variant form used to describe anything with a perforated or porous structure.
Butterfly wings are beautifully foraminous—those scales covering them have thousands of tiny pores that help them absorb heat and regulate their body temperature!
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