'Cavernous' definitions:
Definition of 'cavernous'
From: WordNet
adjective
Being or suggesting a cavern; "vast cavernous chambers hollowed out of limestone"
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Cavernous'
From: GCIDE
- Cavernous \Cav"ern*ous\, a. [L. cavernosus: cf. F. caverneux.]
- 1. Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Filled with small cavities or cells. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Having a sound caused by a cavity. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cavernous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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