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adjective

Cavernous adj.

Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow.

Filled with small cavities or cells.

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.

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Etymology of 'Cavernous'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cavernous" Quotes from Famous Books

... light and shading, the tubby lines of the little tug were softened and altered; its paint-cracked deck and wheelhouse silvered and mellowed. The twin wire cables stretching back to the tow became two glistening silver ropes. At their ends, cavernous gloomy and grimy despite the moonlight, wallowed the high bulky hull ...

— The Plunderer • Henry Oyen

... women always do, Rose hurried forward with—"I'm so glad, Mr —-," but there she stopped abruptly, for the unexpected sight of that stalwart coastguardsman, reduced to a big skeleton with pale face, hollow cheeks, cavernous eyes, and an old-man stoop, was too much for her. She covered her face with her hands ...

— Jeff Benson, or the Young Coastguardsman • R.M. Ballantyne

... know every speck and every cranny of my cavernous hearth, and it is rarely that it calls for any kindling wood of a morning. As a rule a puff from the bellows and a fresh log—one of the little fellows, no thicker than your leg, which I split for this purpose—is enough to set it on its way flaming and glowing for another ...

— The Record of Nicholas Freydon - An Autobiography • A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

... forty yards back from the road, drawing nearly into the cover of the woods, and its little yard was made cavernous by thick-planted paper-mulberry and maple trees, while a line of cherry-trees and an old pole-well rose along the road and hedge. As they rode to the rear of the house a little dormer window, like a snail, crawled low along the ...

— The Entailed Hat - Or, Patty Cannon's Times • George Alfred Townsend

... from the top brick of the chimney to the darkest recesses of the cellar in quest of my vanished treasure. I began with a queer old triangular cupboard that occupied one corner of the kitchen. And in the deepest and dustiest corner of the top shelf of that cavernous old cupboard, what should I find but the cricket ball that I had lost the previous summer? My excitement was so great that I almost fell off the table on which I was standing. As soon as the flicker of my candle fell on the ball I distinctly ...

— Mushrooms on the Moor • Frank Boreham

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