subterranean

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Adjective
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sub=ter=ra=ne=an
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1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective subterranean has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

subterraneana. [L. subterraneus; sub under + terra earth. See Terrace.].
     Being or lying under the surface of the earth; situated within the earth, or under ground; as, subterranean springs; a subterraneous passage.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

subterranean, adj.
1 existing, occurring, or done under the earth's surface.
2 secret, underground, concealed.

Derivative
subterraneously adv.
Etymology
L subterraneus (as SUB-, terra earth)

ROGET THESAURUS

subterranean

Depth

N depth, deepness, profundity, depression, hollow, pit, shaft, well, crater, gulf, bowels of the earth, botttomless pit, hell, soundings, depth of water, water, draught, submersion, plummet, sound, probe, sounding rod, sounding line, lead, bathymetry, sonar, side-looking sonar, bathometer, deep, deep seated, profound, sunk, buried, submerged, subaqueous, submarine, subterranean, subterraneous, subterrene, underground, bottomless, soundless, fathomless, unfathomed, unfathomable, abysmal, deep as a well, bathycolpian, benthal, benthopelagic, downreaching, yawning, knee deep, ankle deep, beyond one's depth, out of one's depth, over head and ears, mark twine, mark twain.


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