English Explanatory Dictionary

porus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A pore.
name
  1. A village in Manchester parish, Jamaica.

Word forms

porus pori

Etymology

One theory expounded by Wikipedia is that is from porous, for porous soil. Another is that it is from Porras, a captain on the 2nd voyage of Columbus when he landed in Jamaica (Ralway Magazine, November-December 1945, page 340).

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