perforate

To pierce, punch, or bore a hole or holes in; penetrate.

To pierce or stamp with rows of holes, as those between postage stamps, to allow easy separation.

To pass into or through something.

Having been perforated.

To bore through; pierce; make a hole or holes in, as by boring or driving.

Synonyms Bore through, Pierce, etc. See penetrate.

Of the shells of gastropod mollusks, having a tubular cavity extending through the columella from the umbilicus to the apex: contrasted with imperforate, in which case the columella is solid.

Bored or pierced through: penetrated.

Specifically— In botany, pierced with one or more small holes, or, more commonly, having translucent dots which resemble holes, as in most plants of the order Hypericineæ.

In ornithology, noting the nostril of a bird when lacking a nasal septum, so that a hole appears from side to side of the bill, as in the turkey-buzzard, crane, etc.