permeable
adjective/ˈpɜːmiəbl/
/ˈpɜːrmiəbl/
(specialist)- allowing a liquid or gas to pass through
- permeable rocks
- gas-permeable contact lenses
- permeable to something The skin of amphibians is permeable to water.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPermeable is used with these nouns:- membrane
- rock
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin permeabilis, from permeare ‘pass through’, from per- ‘through’ + meare ‘pass, go’.
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