subterranean
IPA: sʌbtɝˈeɪniʌn
adjective
- Below ground, under the earth, underground.
- (by extension) Secret, concealed.
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Examples of "subterranean" in Sentences
- The gametophytes are subterranean.
- The salt comes from the saline subterranean springs.
- It reproduces in the subterranean portion of the habitat.
- Simon escaped into the subterranean passages of the city.
- In the gloomy subterranean, church is a rock hewn sepulcher.
- The Hackney Brook is one of the subterranean rivers of London.
- Philip hides the body in a subterranean cave along the riverbank.
- However, the character of the subterranean people was transformed.
- The fresh water is provided subterranean by the Obernberger Seebach.
- "Behold men as if dwelling in subterranean cavern" [Plato, Republic, 7.1].
- Frequently the stem is subterranean or horizontal on the surface of the ground.
- The increasing number of reports on microbes in subterranean samples (Pedersen, 1993; Colwell et al.,
- Just like in subterranean carbon sequestration, the CO2 would be pumped and moved via pipes to the bag.
- He never thinks it beneath his dignity to touch a point of minor morals, or to say a good word for what he somewhere calls subterranean prudence.
- Although the opinion is silent on the issue, it is safe to assume that the released men are college Professors holding doctorates in subterranean climatology.
- Or bound in subterranean dungeons [Maurer]. prison-houses -- either literal prisons, or their own houses, whence they dare not go forth for fear of the enemy.
- A kanāt may be called a subterranean aqueduct, and is a succession of wells, beginning in the mountains, and conducted the required distance into the plains, sometimes for thirty or forty miles.
- However that might be, there was, under the Scottish subsoil, what might be called a subterranean county, which, to be habitable, needed only the rays of the sun, or, for want of that, the light of
- However that might be, there was, under the Scottish subsoil, what might be called a subterranean county, which, to be habitable, needed only the rays of the sun, or, for want of that, the light of a special planet.