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Cavernous

adjective

Being or suggesting a cavern.

Filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood. Synonym: erectile. "The penis is an erectile organ"

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"Cavernous" Quotes from Famous Books

... is a tree-climber; and ascends the loftiest trees in search of the honey of the wild bees, or to make his lair in some cavernous hollow of the trunks. His food is usually fruits and roots, but he is also fond of young corn, and often commits serious depredations on the maize plantation. In the backwood settlements, where clearings are apart from each other, the black bear is still occasionally met with; and ...

— Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found - A Book of Zoology for Boys • Mayne Reid

... cavernous reservoir, receiving its water supply by streamlet feeders (b) from the hills (a). B. A natural, and, it may be, circuitous syphon conduit, by which the water can only reach chamber (C) after it has filled tube (B) to the level of the syphon's top, consequently ...

— A Girl's Ride in Iceland • Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie

... covered, as was likewise the rest of his body wherever visible, with a strong growth of tawny prickly hair in hue and toughness similar to the mountain gorse (Ulex Europeus). The widewinged nostrils, from which bristles of the same tawny hue projected, were of such capaciousness that within their cavernous obscurity the fieldlark might easily have lodged her nest. The eyes in which a tear and a smile strove ever for the mastery were of the dimensions of a goodsized cauliflower. A powerful current of warm breath issued at regular intervals from the ...

— Ulysses • James Joyce

... cloud of little swallows darted from the cavernous entrance on our approach, divided into flocks, soared, wheeled, flew right and left, and finally returned in a body as swiftly as they came, to the sides of the long dark tunnel, which were ...

— Journeys Through Bookland V3 • Charles H. Sylvester

... Monster was quite terrific enough looking before, like the slimy black head of something huge coming out of the water. Now it looks as if it had opened a cavernous maw" (I'm sure he nabbed that from some book) "as black as ink, ready to swallow any unfortunate mariner which came near. Below the base of this fearsome hole roars the cruel surf, ready to engulf a boat which would ...

— Us and the Bottleman • Edith Ballinger Price

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