subterraneous
IPA: sʌbtɝˈeɪniʌs
adjective
- Subterranean.
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Examples of "subterraneous" in Sentences
- Nymphs live subterraneous, feeding on roots.
- All four zones are placed in big subterraneous halls.
- The larvae feed partly subterraneous on various herbaceous plants.
- A little from the shore, westward, is a kind of subterraneous house.
- Larvae feed partly subterraneous on roots of Poaceae and other low plants.
- Larvae feed partly subterraneous on roots of 'Poaceae' and other low plants.
- After breakfast, we went to see what was called a subterraneous house, about a mile off.
- This is the cause of the difference between those erupted lavas, and our whinstone, toadstone, and the Swedish trap, which may be termed subterraneous lava.
- Yet at the same time Johnson sympathized with Milton in his blindness, and in his having to watch "his reputation [as author of Paradise Lost] stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current through fear and silence."
- Many philosophers have believed that the central parts of the earth consist of a fluid mass of burning lava, which they have called a subterraneous sun; and have supposed, that it contributes to the production of metals, and to the growth of vegetables.
- And this is a purgatory after this life; that is, a subterraneous place and various means, where and whereby the souls of men are purged from all their sins and made meet for heaven, when the Lord Christ thinks meet to send for them, or the pope judges it fit to send them to him.
- This study cannot progress till the various epochs of simultaneous action, the direction, the extent, and the force of the convulsions are carefully noted; till we have attentively observed their progressive advance to regions which they had not previously reached; and the coincidence between distant volcanic eruptions and those noises which the inhabitants of the Andes very expressively term subterraneous thunders, or roarings.
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