Usually means: Allowing water to pass through.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. pervious: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pervious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pervious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pervious: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pervious: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pervious, pervious: Wordnik
  7. pervious: Wiktionary
  8. pervious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. pervious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. pervious: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Pervious, pervious: Dictionary.com
  12. Pervious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. pervious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. pervious: Rhymezone
  15. Pervious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. pervious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. pervious: Free Dictionary
  18. pervious: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. pervious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. pervious: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pervious: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pervious: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. pervious: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pervious: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pervious: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. pervious: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary

(Note: See perviousness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pervious)

adjective:  Often followed by to: capable of being penetrated by another body or substance, such as air or water; admitting passage.
adjective:  (figurative)
adjective:  Capable of being seen through; open to being examined; patent, unconcealed.
adjective:  Capable of being penetrated mentally; intelligible, understandable.
adjective:  Of a person, etc.: susceptible to being influenced by arguments, ideas, etc.; impressionable, tractable.
adjective:  (obsolete)
adjective:  Capable of penetrating or permeating.
adjective:  (botany, zoology) Of a body structure (especially the nostril of a bird): having a hole, perforate; also, wide open.

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