SEMISUBTERRANEAN

Meaning of SEMISUBTERRANEAN in English

/sem'ee sub'teuh ray"nee euhn, sem'uy-/ , adj.

half below the surface of the ground: the semisubterranean houses of some Indian tribes.

[ SEMI- + SUBTERRANEAN ]

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BARABARA — /bahr'euh bahr"euh/ , n. an Alaskan or north Siberian semisubterranean house built of sod or turf. [ 1865-70, Amer.; barabóra; …
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YEAR IN REVIEW 1999: ARCHAEOLOGY — Eastern Hemisphere. Evidence reported in 1998 from a project in Egypt suggested that humans living approximately 7,000 years ago enjoyed …
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TANAINA — a North American Indian people, the only northern Athabascan-speaking Indians occupying extensive portions of the seacoast. They lived chiefly in …
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SALISH — group of North American Indian tribes speaking languages of the Salish family and living in what is now British Columbia, …
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KORYAK — indigenous people of the Russian Far East, numbering about 7,900 in the late 20th century and living mostly in the …
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KET — indigenous people of central Siberia who live in the Yenisey River basin; in the late 20th century they numbered about …
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KACHEMAK CULTURE — a culture found around the Kachemak Bay of the southern Kenai Peninsula in central southern Alaska. It is divided into …
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INGALIK — Athabascan-speaking Indian tribe of interior Alaska, in the basins of the upper Kuskokwim and lower Yukon rivers. Their region is …
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HUPA — Indians of the Northwest Pacific Coast of North America who lived along the lower Trinity River in California and spoke …
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ESKIMO — any member of a group of peoples who, with the closely related Aleut, constitute the chief element in the native …
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ANASAZI CULTURE — a North American civilization that developed from about AD 100 to modern times, centring generally on the area where the …
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ESKIMO — n. or Inuit Group of peoples who, with the closely related Aleut , constitute the native population of the Arctic …
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