Definitions
filled with vascular sinuses and capable of becoming distended and rigid as the result of being filled with blood
Word origin
Late Middle English cavernous, cavernose, borrowing from Old French caverneux or Latin cavernōsus (“full of hollows or cavities”), from caverna (“a hollow, cavity, cave”) + -ōsus (“-ous, -ose”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to cavern + -ous.
Used in a sentence
“At 8:34 p.m. Saturday night, in the cavernous ballroom at the Washington Hilton, I heard a loud crashing noise, like a big tray of dinner plates hitting the floor.”
“cavernous eyes”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Vast and echoing”9 letters
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