a. [f. as prec. + -OUS.] Pierced with fine holes or pores.
1664. Power, Experimental Philosophy, I. 3. The eye of a Bee is of a protuberant oval figure, black and all foraminulous, drill’d full of innumerable holes like a Grater or Thimble.
1721. in Bailey.
1884. in Syd. Soc. Lex.
