a. Obs. [f. L. forāmin- FORAMEN + -OUS.] Full of holes, perforated, porous.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 215. Soft and Foraminous Bodies in the first creation of the Sound, will dead it.
1658. Sir T. Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, iii. 51. The Julus, Oak, apple, dill, woolly tuft, foraminous roundles upon the leaf, and grapes under ground make a Fly with some difference.
1664. Power, Experimental Philosophy, I. 8. Her [The Buttefly’s] eye is large and globular (but somewhat flattish) white like Alablaster, diced or bespeck’d here and there with black spots (like checker’d Marble) all foraminous, both the white and black parts of it.
1816. Faber, Orig. Pagan Idol., III. 137. The ark of the Orgies or the ship Argo, and the rocky foraminous grotto whether at Delphi or in Samothrace or in any other region, were alike reputed to be fatidical.
