Subterrene

Quick meaning: Subterrene is an adjective meaning underground, subterranean.

Meaning

underground, subterranean.

More Meanings

1. (rare) A machine for drilling or tunneling underground.

Example Sentences

In the first field tests, a series of holes 2 inches in diameter and 12 feet deep were sunk with the rock-melting device, or subterrene.

With a deafening screech of metal upon rock—which surely must echo through all the recesses of the Mountain, and waken all its nightmare brood!—the subterrene smashed through the wall and came to rest beside them.

… “The beauty of the Subterrene is that, as it burrows through the rock hundreds of feet below the surface, it heats whatever stone it encounters into molten rock, or magma, which cools after the Subterrene has moved on. …

Then he saw a sort of grey phosphorescence about, and guessed they were coming even to that inner world of subterrene horror of which dim legends tell, and which is litten only by the pale death-fire wherewith reeks the ghoulish air and the primal mists of the pits at earth’s core.

Word Forms

• subterrenes

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include subterrestrial, subterraneous, subterrain, subterranean, subterraneal, superterranean.

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