Thesaurus: cavernous

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1. a. Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow.
2. a. Filled with small cavities or cells.
3. a. Having a sound caused by a cavity.
4. adj. being or suggesting a cavern
5. adj. filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood
6. 1. Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow. 2. Filled with small cavities or cells. 3. Having a sound caused by a cavity. 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.
7. j:100 s. being or suggesting a cavern