subterraneous
Adjective
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Adjective
subterraneous (not comparable)
- subterranean#English|Subterranean.
- 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, I:
- [S]he recollected a subterraneous passage which led from the vaults of the castle to the church of saint Nicholas.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, Boston 1892 (8th impression, February 1922), OCLC 237074 ↗, page 527 ↗:
- A low rumbling sound was heard; a subterraneous hum; and then all held their breaths; as bedraggled with trailing ropes, and harpoons, and lances, a vast form shot lengthwise, but obliquely from the sea.
- 1764, Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, I:
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