subterraneousadj.adv.

Brit.

/ˌsʌbtəˈreɪnɪəs/, U.S.

/ˌsəbtəˈreɪniəs/,

/ˌsəbtəˈreɪnjəs/

Forms:

α. 1600s– subterraneous.

β. 1600s subterranious.

γ. 1600s subterranous.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin subterrāneus , -ous suffix.

Etymology: < classical Latin subterrāneus (see subterrane adj.) + -ous suffix. Compare earlier subterraneal adj., subterranean adj., subterrestrial adj.With the β. forms compare -ious suffix. With the γ. forms compare subterranity n.

a. Existing or situated underground; = subterranean adj. 1b. Also occasionally as adv.: †below the ground (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > [adjective] > subterranean

subterraneal1592

under-earth1592

under-earthly1605

subterranean1607

subterraneous1607

subterrene1610

underground1610

subterrestrial1613

subterrane1614

subterrany1626

sotteran1648

subterrenean1653

subterrean1659

mediterraneous1668

hypogeal1686

submundane1805

subsurface1840

hypogeous1847

hypogean1852

below ground1859

catachthonic1884

catachthonian1888

the world > space > relative position > low position > [adjective] > situated or placed under > below the ground

lowc1350

subterraneal1592

under-earth1592

under-earthly1605

subterranean1607

subterraneous1607

subterrene1610

subterrestrial1613

subterrane1614

subterrany1626

sotteran1648

subterrenean1653

hypogeal1686

hypogeous1847

hypogean1852

below ground1859

the world > space > relative position > low position > [adverb] > under > under the ground

underground1598

above (also under) grounda1604

subterraneous1712

subterraneously1764

subterraneanly1859

1607 Bp. J. King Serm. Oxon 5 Nov. 29 They saie to the ground couer vs, and to a subterraneous vault, keep vs close.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. i. 55 Yet are they not to be closed up in the generall name of concretions, or lightly passed over as onely Elementary, and Subterraneous mixtions.

1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety xii. 325 There are many subterraneous springs which feed this Ocean.

1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 84 The River..having run subterraneous for two Leagues, rises again.

1725 A. Pope Corr. 2 June (1956) II. 296 In my Gardens..I..[am] happily finishing the subterraneous Way and Grotto.

1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 164 Being subterraneous, they must be always damp.

1813 R. Southey Life Nelson II. 28 Lady Hamilton..explored..a subterraneous passage, leading from the palace to the sea side.

1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 227 The sources of cold..are, rain at a lower temperature than the soil,..and where draining has been neglected, subterraneous water.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 332 Let them bring together the streams in subterraneous channels.

1920 C. B. Haynes Satan 24 It [sc. the earth] is diversified with..continents, oceans, islands;..vast subterraneous caverns; volcanoes belching flame; [etc.].

1976 M. Dearnley in A. Richards Penguin Bk. Welsh Short Stories 223 Dr Morgan entered the subterraneous study.

1999 K. Hickman Daughters of Britannia (2000) viii. 167 We passed through some subterraneous passages almost entirely without light.

b. Living or working underground; = subterranean adj. 1d.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [adjective]

subterranean1753

subterraneous1773

the world > life > biology > balance of nature > organisms in relation to habitat > [adjective]

fieldya1382

waterya1382

agrestial1608

subterranean1638

lucifugous1654

nemoral1656

subcutaneous1664

subterraneous1832

subtidal1852

xylophilous1862

xerophilous1863

acid-loving1870

aerobic1878

aerobian1879

aerobious1879

aerobiotic1880

subaquatic1880

aerophilous1885

facultative1887

pelagic1887

aerophile1888

autotrophic1893

heterotrophic1893

plastic1893

thermophilic1894

thermophil1896

mesophilic1897

halolimnic1898

polybathic1898

tolerant1898

limnetic1899

thermophilous1899

metatrophic1900

mixotrophic1900

paratrophic1900

mesophilous1901

benthic1902

epibenthic1902

eurybathic1902

microaerophilic1903

sympatric1904

benthoal1905

cryophile1907

benthonic1909

microaerophile1909

lenitic1916

lotic1916

psychrotolerant1924

oligosaprobic1925

polysaprobic1925

aerophilic1929

saprobic1932

primary1934

lentic1935

chemoautotrophic1936

eurytopic1937

psammic1938

saprotrophic1942

prototrophic1946

chemolithoautotrophic1949

auxotrophic1950

chemolithotrophic1953

chemoorganotrophic1953

opportunist1956

psychrophile1956

psychrophilic1958

opportunistic1960

psychrotrophic1960

oligosaprobe1990

a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. ix. 320 A subterraneous generation of men, who had neuer once beheld the light of the Sunne.

1673 E. Browne Brief Acct. Trav. Hvngaria 38 I had formerly read of Troglodytes and subterraneous Nations, about Ægypt; but I was much surprized to see the like in this place.

?1720 Wonderful Wonder 2 Certain Subterraneous Nymphs.

1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote II. vii. i. 108 I shall send you to preach the Gospel to the poor Colliers in Stafford and Shropshire, or to the subterraneous inhabitants of the lead-mines in the Peak of Derbyshire.

1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 193 The Proteus anguineus—a creature, which is in a manner both subaqueous and subterraneous.

1860 S. Smiles Self-help (new ed.) ii. 29 Occupying an underground cellar, over which he put up the sign, ‘Come to the subterraneous barber’.

1909 W. H. Hudson Afoot in Eng. xix. 216 The humble subterraneous mole proves himself on occasions a good colourist when..the hillocks he throws up form numberless irregular splashes of bright red colour.

1963 Oikos 14 242 These species belong to the same type of constitution: absence of eyes and pigment... They all represent typically subterraneous species.

2000 A. M. Young Small Creatures & Ordinary Places 65 A subterraneous cicada nymph's timing to crawl up and out of the ground..is perhaps more than a matter of the animal measuring time mediated by soil temperatures.

c. Occurring underground; = subterranean adj. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > structure of the earth > [adjective] > subterranean > operating

subterranean1603

subterraneous1625

1625 Bp. H. King David's Enlargement 21 in Bp. H. King & J. King 2 Serm. Doe not suffer..the Embers of sinne, any loose thoughts, or vitious Imaginations, to lurke within thy bosome; least at length those subterraneous fires breake out like Ætna.

1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall iv. 55 The Stoicks who thought the souls of wise men had their habitation about the moon, might make slight account of subterraneous deposition.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) 154 There can be no assured decision without an ocular exploration and subterraneous enquiry.

1703 Philos. Trans. 1702–3 (Royal Soc.) 23 1327 Venomous Steems and Damps..are frequent in Countries that abound with Minerals or Subterraneous Fires.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. i. 321 The subterraneous thumps of the miner's spade and pickaxe.

1803–5 W. Wordsworth Matron of Jedborough 27 He breathes a subterraneous damp.

1855 D. T. Ansted in Orr's Circle Sci.: Inorg. Nature 49 This matter, in a melted state, has been from time to time agitated, disturbed, and forced out by subterraneous forces.

1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War (1929) x. 110 Listening at the foot of the mineshaft..for the subterraneous sounds there spelling danger.

1985 C. Smith in P. M. Harman Wranglers & Physicists iii. 66 This science treated not merely of subterraneous forces, but of causes of change of climate.

1999 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) (Nexis) 9 June 37 Last night's subterraneous blaze was the second major underground fire in nine months.

d. Botany. Growing underground; = subterranean adj. 1e.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > [adjective] > growing underground (of plant or part)

subterraneous1673

subterranean1776

1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 403 Tubera Terrae, a kind of subterraneous Mushrome.

1777 S. Robson Brit. Flora 136 Trifolium subterraneum,..Subterraneous Trefoil.

1829 T. Castle Introd. Systematical & Physiol. Bot. 45 Subterraneous—when they are in the ground, as with the snow-drop and most plants.

1845 J. Scott Sportsman's Repository 119 Truffles are subterraneous mushrooms, much more plentiful in the Southern Countries than in this.

1892 Amer. Jrnl. Pharmacy 64 598 The aerial axillary tubers [of Dioscorea bulbifera]..contain a toxic principle, which is not represented in its subterraneous tuber.

1901 J. Weathers Pract. Guide Garden Plants 802/1 Salix (Willow).—A genus of trees and shrubs, sometimes with very dwarf subterraneous trunks and branches creeping along the surface of the ground.

1965 Brittonia 17 299 Plants often with little or no wood above the ground, the new growth usually arising close to the root crown or from subterraneous rhizomes.

2007 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104 3652/2 Many members of the genus store high quality starch in modified or subterraneous stems.

†e. Of trees, a forest, etc.: buried in the ground; = subterranean adj. 1c. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by habitat > [adjective] > buried in the earth

subterranean1610

subterraneous1673

1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 6 These subterraneous Woods are found in those places which 500 years ago were Sea.

1712 Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 478 The Subterraneous Trees, uncovered by an Inundation of the River of Thames in Dagenham and Havering Marshes.

1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1769 (ed. 3) 129 There are in the moors of these parts, what I may call subterraneous forests, of the same species of trees, overthrown by the rage of tempests, and covered with vegetable mould.

1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. 346 The subterraneous ‘Flora’ of a geological formation.

1880 Jrnl. Forestry & Estates Managem. 3 367 The geological investigations which Dr. Moesta of Marburg made last summer..have led to a discovery of a subterraneous oak forest.

2. Infernal; = subterranean adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [adjective]

nethereOE

hellena1225

infernalc1374

infern?a1513

hellish1530

helly1532

Avernal?1548

hellic1566

subterrestrial1592

Plutonic1596

Acherontic1597

Plutonical1599

Stygian1601

subterranean1603

Plutonian1604

Acherontical1610

subterraneous1631

subterraneal1643

Tophetical1684

pandemoniac1793

submundane1805

subterrene1809

netherworld1828

pandemonic1833

Acheronian1849

transacherontic1854

Avernian1864

trans-Stygian1899

1631 R. Knevet Rhodon & Iris i. i. sig. B2 Assist our great designe, ye subterraneous powers, That utterly abhorre to view the glaring light.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 308 Calling him..in the Air, Juno; in the Winds, Æolus; in the Sea, Neptune; in the Earth and Subterraneous Parts Pluto.

1740 C. Pitt tr. Virgil Æneid I. vi. 254 Ye Subterraneous Gods! whose awful Sway The gliding Ghosts and silent Shades obey.

1794 T. Maurice Indian Antiq. V. 284 Psyche..received immediate and positive orders to visit the gloomy subterraneous regions of Pluto.

1820 F. A. Rowden Christian Wreath for Pagan Deities 76 This gloomy abode [sc. Tartarus] was an extensive subterraneous region, to arrive at which it was necessary to pass four rivers.

1891 B. S. Colyer-Fergusson tr. P. D. Chantepie de la Saussaye Man. Sci. Relig. xiii. 109 We must distinguish the goddess of the earth..from the subterraneous deities.

1914 A. G. Chater tr. F. Nansen Through Siberia x. 226 The shamans naturally stand in a peculiarly intimate relation to these super- and subterraneous powers, from whom they derive their faculty of curing diseases..and predicting the future.

2001 K. Essex Kleopatra xviii. 270 At night, he [sc. Ra] turns into a ram,..arriving in the underworld to visit his son-in-law, Osiris, god of that subterraneous region.

3. Secret, clandestine; = subterranean adj. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [adjective]

dernc897

dighela1000

hid?c1225

stillc1275

stillyc1275

covertc1303

secrec1374

secret1399

secretivec1470

covered1484

dark1532

underhid1532

hiddena1547

concealed1558

abstruse1576

unshewing1598

mystical1600

of secreta1616

mystica1625

subterraneous1652

researched1653

hugger-mugger1692

hidlingsa1810

sub rosa1824

cachet1837

cloak and dagger1841

theftuous1881

q.t.1910

closet1966

down-low1991

1652 On Bugbear Black-Monday (single sheet) Did the Sun put on a Vizard-look? Or were ye scar'd with Bug-bears, that ye shook? Or why forbore ye Market Countrey Sots? Were ye affraid of subterraneous Plots?

1682 E. Pearse Conformist's 2nd Plea for Nonconformists 44 It was as cunning a subterraneous Conveyance for Popery, as could be thought of.

1735 H. Walpole Let. 9 Sept. in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 259 These dark & subterraneous negociations w^th y^e promise of secrecy in all events.

1759 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) III. vii. 176 He might have discovered some of Legge's subterraneous intrigues.

1838 Times 30 Nov. 3/2 Those conspiracies which are discovered from time to time..testify, on the contrary, that there is in Poland a subterraneous work..of reflection and preparation.

1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. Pref. p. xii So obstinately has this malady pursued its noiseless, and what I may call subterraneous, siege.

1916 W. W. Whitelock tr. F. Meinecke in Mod. Germany 574 It is one of the worst perversions of the truth..to have misrepresented Austria's self-defense..against the subterraneous intrigues of Pan-Slavism.

1984 Times 18 Sept. 16/4 Another artist who has rather slipped from attention since his death, though without as far as can be seen the subterraneous mutterings of a great revival, is Claude Rogers.

2006 Ann Arbor News (Mich.) (Nexis) 12 Mar. Ibsen is such a genius in crafting plot..it's really difficult to get..a lot of the underlying, subterraneous meanings in these simple lines of dialogue.

Compounds

† subterraneous geometer n. Obsolete rare a practitioner of subterraneous geometry; cf. mine surveyor n. at mine n. Compounds 2.

ΚΠ

1778 Philos. Trans. 1777 (Royal Soc.) 67 423 A twisted brass wire..two puncheons, a semi-circle, and a compass, are all the instruments made use of by the subterraneous Geometer.

subterraneous geometry n. now historical and rare the use of the methods of geometry and surveying in the construction and working of mines; mine surveying.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [adjective]

subterraneous geometry1777

1777 R. E. Raspe in tr. I. von Born Trav. Bannat of Temeswar xii. 111 (note) If it was proved to demonstration that the Sigismund gallery really is a Roman work: however, we need not be anxious about their subterraneous geometry.

1811 J. Black tr. A. von Humboldt Polit. Ess. New Spain III. iv. xi. 238 As subterraneous geometry has been entirely neglected in Mexico.., there is no plan in existence of the works already executed.

1876 Warehousemen & Drapers' Trade Jrnl. 7 Oct. 469/1 The course of education comprised the elements of mineralogy and metallurgical chemistry,..subterraneous geometry, geodosy, geognosy, and the practical working of mines.

2005 S. Restivo Sci., Tech., & Society 526/2 ‘Subterraneous geometry’ became a major theme in Mexican science.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	subterraneous
释义	subterraneousadj.adv. Brit. /ˌsʌbtəˈreɪnɪəs/, U.S. /ˌsəbtəˈreɪniəs/, /ˌsəbtəˈreɪnjəs/ Forms: α. 1600s– subterraneous. β. 1600s subterranious. γ. 1600s subterranous. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin subterrāneus , -ous suffix. Etymology: < classical Latin subterrāneus (see subterrane adj.) + -ous suffix. Compare earlier subterraneal adj., subterranean adj., subterrestrial adj.With the β. forms compare -ious suffix. With the γ. forms compare subterranity n. 1. a. Existing or situated underground; = subterranean adj. 1b. Also occasionally as adv.: †below the ground (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > [adjective] > subterranean subterraneal1592 under-earth1592 under-earthly1605 subterranean1607 subterraneous1607 subterrene1610 underground1610 subterrestrial1613 subterrane1614 subterrany1626 sotteran1648 subterrenean1653 subterrean1659 mediterraneous1668 hypogeal1686 submundane1805 subsurface1840 hypogeous1847 hypogean1852 below ground1859 catachthonic1884 catachthonian1888 the world > space > relative position > low position > [adjective] > situated or placed under > below the ground lowc1350 subterraneal1592 under-earth1592 under-earthly1605 subterranean1607 subterraneous1607 subterrene1610 subterrestrial1613 subterrane1614 subterrany1626 sotteran1648 subterrenean1653 hypogeal1686 hypogeous1847 hypogean1852 below ground1859 the world > space > relative position > low position > [adverb] > under > under the ground underground1598 above (also under) grounda1604 subterraneous1712 subterraneously1764 subterraneanly1859 1607 Bp. J. King Serm. Oxon 5 Nov. 29 They saie to the ground couer vs, and to a subterraneous vault, keep vs close. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. i. 55 Yet are they not to be closed up in the generall name of concretions, or lightly passed over as onely Elementary, and Subterraneous mixtions. View more context for this quotation 1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety xii. 325 There are many subterraneous springs which feed this Ocean. 1712 E. Cooke Voy. S. Sea 84 The River..having run subterraneous for two Leagues, rises again. 1725 A. Pope Corr. 2 June (1956) II. 296 In my Gardens..I..[am] happily finishing the subterraneous Way and Grotto. 1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 164 Being subterraneous, they must be always damp. 1813 R. Southey Life Nelson II. 28 Lady Hamilton..explored..a subterraneous passage, leading from the palace to the sea side. 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 227 The sources of cold..are, rain at a lower temperature than the soil,..and where draining has been neglected, subterraneous water. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 332 Let them bring together the streams in subterraneous channels. 1920 C. B. Haynes Satan 24 It [sc. the earth] is diversified with..continents, oceans, islands;..vast subterraneous caverns; volcanoes belching flame; [etc.]. 1976 M. Dearnley in A. Richards Penguin Bk. Welsh Short Stories 223 Dr Morgan entered the subterraneous study. 1999 K. Hickman Daughters of Britannia (2000) viii. 167 We passed through some subterraneous passages almost entirely without light. b. Living or working underground; = subterranean adj. 1d. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [adjective] subterranean1753 subterraneous1773 the world > life > biology > balance of nature > organisms in relation to habitat > [adjective] fieldya1382 waterya1382 agrestial1608 subterranean1638 lucifugous1654 nemoral1656 subcutaneous1664 subterraneous1832 subtidal1852 xylophilous1862 xerophilous1863 acid-loving1870 aerobic1878 aerobian1879 aerobious1879 aerobiotic1880 subaquatic1880 aerophilous1885 facultative1887 pelagic1887 aerophile1888 autotrophic1893 heterotrophic1893 plastic1893 thermophilic1894 thermophil1896 mesophilic1897 halolimnic1898 polybathic1898 tolerant1898 limnetic1899 thermophilous1899 metatrophic1900 mixotrophic1900 paratrophic1900 mesophilous1901 benthic1902 epibenthic1902 eurybathic1902 microaerophilic1903 sympatric1904 benthoal1905 cryophile1907 benthonic1909 microaerophile1909 lenitic1916 lotic1916 psychrotolerant1924 oligosaprobic1925 polysaprobic1925 aerophilic1929 saprobic1932 primary1934 lentic1935 chemoautotrophic1936 eurytopic1937 psammic1938 saprotrophic1942 prototrophic1946 chemolithoautotrophic1949 auxotrophic1950 chemolithotrophic1953 chemoorganotrophic1953 opportunist1956 psychrophile1956 psychrophilic1958 opportunistic1960 psychrotrophic1960 oligosaprobe1990 a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. ix. 320 A subterraneous generation of men, who had neuer once beheld the light of the Sunne. 1673 E. Browne Brief Acct. Trav. Hvngaria 38 I had formerly read of Troglodytes and subterraneous Nations, about Ægypt; but I was much surprized to see the like in this place. ?1720 Wonderful Wonder 2 Certain Subterraneous Nymphs. 1773 R. Graves Spiritual Quixote II. vii. i. 108 I shall send you to preach the Gospel to the poor Colliers in Stafford and Shropshire, or to the subterraneous inhabitants of the lead-mines in the Peak of Derbyshire. 1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 193 The Proteus anguineus—a creature, which is in a manner both subaqueous and subterraneous. 1860 S. Smiles Self-help (new ed.) ii. 29 Occupying an underground cellar, over which he put up the sign, ‘Come to the subterraneous barber’. 1909 W. H. Hudson Afoot in Eng. xix. 216 The humble subterraneous mole proves himself on occasions a good colourist when..the hillocks he throws up form numberless irregular splashes of bright red colour. 1963 Oikos 14 242 These species belong to the same type of constitution: absence of eyes and pigment... They all represent typically subterraneous species. 2000 A. M. Young Small Creatures & Ordinary Places 65 A subterraneous cicada nymph's timing to crawl up and out of the ground..is perhaps more than a matter of the animal measuring time mediated by soil temperatures. c. Occurring underground; = subterranean adj. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > [adjective] > subterranean > operating subterranean1603 subterraneous1625 1625 Bp. H. King David's Enlargement 21 in Bp. H. King & J. King 2 Serm. Doe not suffer..the Embers of sinne, any loose thoughts, or vitious Imaginations, to lurke within thy bosome; least at length those subterraneous fires breake out like Ætna. 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall iv. 55 The Stoicks who thought the souls of wise men had their habitation about the moon, might make slight account of subterraneous deposition. a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) 154 There can be no assured decision without an ocular exploration and subterraneous enquiry. 1703 Philos. Trans. 1702–3 (Royal Soc.) 23 1327 Venomous Steems and Damps..are frequent in Countries that abound with Minerals or Subterraneous Fires. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. i. 321 The subterraneous thumps of the miner's spade and pickaxe. 1803–5 W. Wordsworth Matron of Jedborough 27 He breathes a subterraneous damp. 1855 D. T. Ansted in Orr's Circle Sci.: Inorg. Nature 49 This matter, in a melted state, has been from time to time agitated, disturbed, and forced out by subterraneous forces. 1928 E. Blunden Undertones of War (1929) x. 110 Listening at the foot of the mineshaft..for the subterraneous sounds there spelling danger. 1985 C. Smith in P. M. Harman Wranglers & Physicists iii. 66 This science treated not merely of subterraneous forces, but of causes of change of climate. 1999 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) (Nexis) 9 June 37 Last night's subterraneous blaze was the second major underground fire in nine months. d. Botany. Growing underground; = subterranean adj. 1e. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > [adjective] > growing underground (of plant or part) subterraneous1673 subterranean1776 1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 403 Tubera Terrae, a kind of subterraneous Mushrome. 1777 S. Robson Brit. Flora 136 Trifolium subterraneum,..Subterraneous Trefoil. 1829 T. Castle Introd. Systematical & Physiol. Bot. 45 Subterraneous—when they are in the ground, as with the snow-drop and most plants. 1845 J. Scott Sportsman's Repository 119 Truffles are subterraneous mushrooms, much more plentiful in the Southern Countries than in this. 1892 Amer. Jrnl. Pharmacy 64 598 The aerial axillary tubers [of Dioscorea bulbifera]..contain a toxic principle, which is not represented in its subterraneous tuber. 1901 J. Weathers Pract. Guide Garden Plants 802/1 Salix (Willow).—A genus of trees and shrubs, sometimes with very dwarf subterraneous trunks and branches creeping along the surface of the ground. 1965 Brittonia 17 299 Plants often with little or no wood above the ground, the new growth usually arising close to the root crown or from subterraneous rhizomes. 2007 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 104 3652/2 Many members of the genus store high quality starch in modified or subterraneous stems. †e. Of trees, a forest, etc.: buried in the ground; = subterranean adj. 1c. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > characterized by habitat > [adjective] > buried in the earth subterranean1610 subterraneous1673 1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 6 These subterraneous Woods are found in those places which 500 years ago were Sea. 1712 Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 478 The Subterraneous Trees, uncovered by an Inundation of the River of Thames in Dagenham and Havering Marshes. 1774 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. 1769 (ed. 3) 129 There are in the moors of these parts, what I may call subterraneous forests, of the same species of trees, overthrown by the rage of tempests, and covered with vegetable mould. 1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. 346 The subterraneous ‘Flora’ of a geological formation. 1880 Jrnl. Forestry & Estates Managem. 3 367 The geological investigations which Dr. Moesta of Marburg made last summer..have led to a discovery of a subterraneous oak forest. 2. Infernal; = subterranean adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [adjective] nethereOE hellena1225 infernalc1374 infern?a1513 hellish1530 helly1532 Avernal?1548 hellic1566 subterrestrial1592 Plutonic1596 Acherontic1597 Plutonical1599 Stygian1601 subterranean1603 Plutonian1604 Acherontical1610 subterraneous1631 subterraneal1643 Tophetical1684 pandemoniac1793 submundane1805 subterrene1809 netherworld1828 pandemonic1833 Acheronian1849 transacherontic1854 Avernian1864 trans-Stygian1899 1631 R. Knevet Rhodon & Iris i. i. sig. B2 Assist our great designe, ye subterraneous powers, That utterly abhorre to view the glaring light. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 308 Calling him..in the Air, Juno; in the Winds, Æolus; in the Sea, Neptune; in the Earth and Subterraneous Parts Pluto. 1740 C. Pitt tr. Virgil Æneid I. vi. 254 Ye Subterraneous Gods! whose awful Sway The gliding Ghosts and silent Shades obey. 1794 T. Maurice Indian Antiq. V. 284 Psyche..received immediate and positive orders to visit the gloomy subterraneous regions of Pluto. 1820 F. A. Rowden Christian Wreath for Pagan Deities 76 This gloomy abode [sc. Tartarus] was an extensive subterraneous region, to arrive at which it was necessary to pass four rivers. 1891 B. S. Colyer-Fergusson tr. P. D. Chantepie de la Saussaye Man. Sci. Relig. xiii. 109 We must distinguish the goddess of the earth..from the subterraneous deities. 1914 A. G. Chater tr. F. Nansen Through Siberia x. 226 The shamans naturally stand in a peculiarly intimate relation to these super- and subterraneous powers, from whom they derive their faculty of curing diseases..and predicting the future. 2001 K. Essex Kleopatra xviii. 270 At night, he [sc. Ra] turns into a ram,..arriving in the underworld to visit his son-in-law, Osiris, god of that subterraneous region. 3. Secret, clandestine; = subterranean adj. 3. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [adjective] dernc897 dighela1000 hid?c1225 stillc1275 stillyc1275 covertc1303 secrec1374 secret1399 secretivec1470 covered1484 dark1532 underhid1532 hiddena1547 concealed1558 abstruse1576 unshewing1598 mystical1600 of secreta1616 mystica1625 subterraneous1652 researched1653 hugger-mugger1692 hidlingsa1810 sub rosa1824 cachet1837 cloak and dagger1841 theftuous1881 q.t.1910 closet1966 down-low1991 1652 On Bugbear Black-Monday (single sheet) Did the Sun put on a Vizard-look? Or were ye scar'd with Bug-bears, that ye shook? Or why forbore ye Market Countrey Sots? Were ye affraid of subterraneous Plots? 1682 E. Pearse Conformist's 2nd Plea for Nonconformists 44 It was as cunning a subterraneous Conveyance for Popery, as could be thought of. 1735 H. Walpole Let. 9 Sept. in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 259 These dark & subterraneous negociations w^th y^e promise of secrecy in all events. 1759 H. Walpole Mem. George II (1847) III. vii. 176 He might have discovered some of Legge's subterraneous intrigues. 1838 Times 30 Nov. 3/2 Those conspiracies which are discovered from time to time..testify, on the contrary, that there is in Poland a subterraneous work..of reflection and preparation. 1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. Pref. p. xii So obstinately has this malady pursued its noiseless, and what I may call subterraneous, siege. 1916 W. W. Whitelock tr. F. Meinecke in Mod. Germany 574 It is one of the worst perversions of the truth..to have misrepresented Austria's self-defense..against the subterraneous intrigues of Pan-Slavism. 1984 Times 18 Sept. 16/4 Another artist who has rather slipped from attention since his death, though without as far as can be seen the subterraneous mutterings of a great revival, is Claude Rogers. 2006 Ann Arbor News (Mich.) (Nexis) 12 Mar. Ibsen is such a genius in crafting plot..it's really difficult to get..a lot of the underlying, subterraneous meanings in these simple lines of dialogue. Compounds † subterraneous geometer n. Obsolete rare a practitioner of subterraneous geometry; cf. mine surveyor n. at mine n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1778 Philos. Trans. 1777 (Royal Soc.) 67 423 A twisted brass wire..two puncheons, a semi-circle, and a compass, are all the instruments made use of by the subterraneous Geometer. subterraneous geometry n. now historical and rare the use of the methods of geometry and surveying in the construction and working of mines; mine surveying. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [adjective] subterraneous geometry1777 1777 R. E. Raspe in tr. I. von Born Trav. Bannat of Temeswar xii. 111 (note) If it was proved to demonstration that the Sigismund gallery really is a Roman work: however, we need not be anxious about their subterraneous geometry. 1811 J. Black tr. A. von Humboldt Polit. Ess. New Spain III. iv. xi. 238 As subterraneous geometry has been entirely neglected in Mexico.., there is no plan in existence of the works already executed. 1876 Warehousemen & Drapers' Trade Jrnl. 7 Oct. 469/1 The course of education comprised the elements of mineralogy and metallurgical chemistry,..subterraneous geometry, geodosy, geognosy, and the practical working of mines. 2005 S. Restivo Sci., Tech., & Society 526/2 ‘Subterraneous geometry’ became a major theme in Mexican science. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.adv.1607
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