superterreneadj.

1709 T. Robinson Ess. Nat. Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland iv. 23 The Division of the Waters..was made into Waters subterrene, superterrene, and nubiferous.

1797 in G. Staunton Authentic Acct. Embassy to China II. vi. 449 Upright columns were erected, and connected by stones from this superterrene quarry.

1848 G. T. F. Speede New Indian Gardener & Guide 10 Plants are..liable to be weakened from the over-growth of superterrene vegetation, produced by the excitement of a heated atmosphere.

1881 G. Milner Country Pleasures xxi. 105 When your progenitors nested or herded in such a superterrene covert.

1912 J. K. Goodrich Africa To-day vi. 87 Some of the superterrene temples..are in remarkably good state of preservation.

1931 Geogr. Jrnl. 78 330 The grotto..is filled with irregularly arranged superterrene graves of a curious design.

1979 Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 92 39 Many herbaceous plants form bulbils..in their superterrene shoots.

1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. iii. xii. 178 I am positive it began with ‘subterrene and sublime princess!’ ‘It could not be subterrene, said the barber, but superterrene or sovereign [Sp. No diría..sobajada, sino sobrehumana o soberana señora].’

1838 Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. 5 290 These superterrene realms, the Lokas or spheres, inhabited by various orders of beings.

1866 J. S. Mill in Edinb. Rev. 123 328 The gods..must live in the perpetual contemplation of these glorious and superterrene existences.

1908 Pacific Unitarian Nov. 15/2 We..remind our high-soaring brother, that the super-terrene element in which he floats so grandly is no more his native element than ours.