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subterraneous

subterraneous adjective: subterranean.

Adjective

subterraneous (not comparable)

  1. Subterranean.
    • [S]he recollected a ſubterraneous paſſage which led from the vaults of the caſtle to the church of St. Nicholas.1764 December 24 (indicated as 1765), Onuphrio Muralto, translated by William Marshal [pseudonyms; Horace Walpole], chapter I, in The Castle of Otranto, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Lownds […], →OCLC...
    • 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...1836 October, Washington Irving, chapter XXVI, in Astoria, or Anecdotes of an Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey, [Isaac] Lea, & Blanchard...

Origin of subterraneous

Adapted borrowing of Latin subterrāneus + -ous. Doublet of subterrane.

Words formed from subterraneous

Questions about subterraneous

What does subterraneous mean?
Subterraneous means subterranean.
What part of speech is subterraneous?
Subterraneous is an adjective.

Words near subterraneous in the dictionary

  1. subterraneanly
  2. subterraneanness
  3. subterraneans
  4. subterraneities
  5. subterraneity
  6. subterraneous
  7. subterraneously
  8. subterraneousness
  9. subterranes
  10. subterranies
  11. subterranities

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