cavernous

3 definitions found

cavernous - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Cavernous \Cav"ern*ous\, a. [L. cavernosus: cf. F. caverneux.]
     1. Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity;
        hollow.
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     2. Filled with small cavities or cells.
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     3. Having a sound caused by a cavity.
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     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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cavernous - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  cavernous
      adj 1: being or suggesting a cavern; "vast cavernous chambers
             hollowed out of limestone"
      2: 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" [syn:
         erectile, cavernous]

cavernous - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  53 Moby Thesaurus words for "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