Subterraneous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Subterraneous is an adjective meaning Subterranean.
Meaning
Subterranean.
Example Sentences
[S]he recollected a ſubterraneous paſſage which led from the vaults of the caſtle to the church of St. Nicholas.
The 3-mile underground railway—or "subterraneous wagonway"—was begun about 1770 by Christopher Bedlington, and was therefore commonly known as Kitty's Drift.
A low rumbling sound was heard; a subterraneous hum; and then all held their breaths; as bedraggled with trailing ropes, and harpoons, and lances, a vast form shot lengthwise, but obliquely from the sea.
The Indians of the Orellanna, also, tell of horrible noises heard occasionally in the Paraguaxo, […] Others have endeavored to account for these discharges of "mountain artillery" on humbler principles; attributing them […] to the disengagement of hydrogen, produced by subterraneous beds of coal in a state of ignition.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include subterrestrial, subterrene, subterrain, subterranean, subterraneal, semisubterranean.
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