SUBTERRANEAN


Meaning of SUBTERRANEAN in English

adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

an underground/subterranean passage

The air in these underground passages is cold and damp.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

subterranean passages

a subterranean explosion

A subterranean stream is believed to flow underneath the town.

Electronic sensors have located a huge subterranean cavern in the Sierre Madre mountain range.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Every deep-earth geophysicist has his or her own version of this subterranean landscape.

In fact, most of the central section has all but disappeared, the river now wending its subterranean way beneath the town.

Now she did a very curious thing: she explored all the subterranean passages connecting the Columbia buildings.

She is associated with a bridge, a subterranean aqueduct and a magic distaff, one of the symbols of Athene.

She snarled as she leapt from her subterranean tunnel out into the sunlight, on to the bloodstained sand.

Since then, they have represented the darker, subterranean forces of nature.

The footing corals start to anchor down on the loose rocks, and the subterranean sponges burrow underneath.

To the Incas hell was a subterranean , cold place where you lived on stones: heaven was with the sun.

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