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cavernous 音标拼音: [k'ævɚnəs] a. 似巨穴的 似巨穴的 cavernous adj 1: being or suggesting a cavern; " vast cavernous chambers hollowed out of limestone" 2: 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" [ synonym: { erectile}, { cavernous}] 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] 53 Moby Thesaurus words for " cavernous": 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
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