(n.) Originally, a back door or gate; a private entrance; hence, any small door or gate.
(n.) A subterraneous passage communicating between the parade and the main ditch, or between the ditches and the interior of the outworks.
(a.) Back; being behind; private.
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Subterranean
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Subterraneous
Example Sentences:
(1) The adaptive value of sound signal characteristics for transmission in the underground tunnel ecotope was tested using tunnels of the solitary territorial subterranean mole rats.
(2) This blunted IPC sensitivity has been suggested to be a physiological adaptation to hypercapnic subterranean environments.
(3) The ultrastructure of the pinealocytes of the golden mole (Amblysomus hottentotus), a blind subterranean mammal living in complete darkness, was examined and compared with that of pinealocytes of other mammals.
(4) The 26 miles of tunnel being dug under the heart of the capital – picking a careful way among ancient remains, beneath prime property and past the oldest subterranean railway in the world – is restating Britain's traditional claim to be a world leader in the field.
(5) The term is used to refer to removing salt from both seawater and subterranean “brackish” water, as well as the treatment of waste water (aka sewerage) to make it drinkable.
(6) However, due importance must always be given to the subterranean economy.
(7) The mole rat (Spalax ehrenbergi) burrows throughout its life in subterranean tunnels.
(8) Anomalous nodulation of Trifolium subterraneum (subterranean clover) roots by Rhizobium leguminosarum 1020 was examined as a model of modified host-specificity in a Rhizobium-legume symbiosis.
(9) A 3-m-deep well drilled near these trees indicated that the source of tritiated water was a narrow zone of subterranean flow.
(10) The comparative study of the aortic trunks of Dibamus (subterranean limbless Squamate) and of the other Squamata shows the presence of an original vascular organization in the serpentiform animals submitted to the subterranean life constraints as Scolecophidia, Amphisbaenia, Dibamidae, Anniellidae, Feyliniidae, and some Scincidae (genus Acontias and Typhlosaurus).
(11) Results of field physiologic and hygienic investigations of borer's work schedule during the subterranean gold extraction in the Chukot Range [correction of Chukotka] are presented.
(12) Genetic differentiation of ribosomal DNA (rDNA) nontranscribed-spacer (NTS) polymorphism was analyzed in 50 individuals from 13 populations among the four chromosomal species (2n = 52, 2n = 54, 2n = 58, and 2n = 60) of subterranean mole rats of the Spalax ehrenbergi complex in Israel.
(13) The Damara mole-rat (Cryptomys damarensis) leads a strictly subterranean existence in an extensive maze of plugged burrows and eats a strictly herbivorous diet.
(14) For example, behavioral and biomechanical observations have revealed a diversity of digging modes among subterranean mammals.
(15) The eardrum and the auditory ossicles of the middle ear, and the population of cochlear receptors in subterranean mole-rats of Spalax ehrenbergi complex were qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed.
(16) Dramatic sinkholes , such as the recent one in Japan , are not always caused by underground mining – but Paris’s subterranean history certainly makes it more vulnerable to such events.
(17) The effect of dietary fibre and starch content on digestibility, microfaunal population and caecal function was investigated in a subterranean mole-rat, Heterocephalus glaber (Rodentia).
(18) A comparison of the hemoglobins of mole rat, mouse, and other rodents shows homology but no indication of adaptation to subterranean life.
(19) In the early morning gloaming, they descend into the network of subterranean passages that span the few hundreds metres across the Gazan border, into Egypt.
(20) When 2,4-dinitrophenol and carbon dioxide were applied together to dormant seeds of Trifolium subterraneum L. (subterranean clover), 2,4-dinitrophenol did not disturb the breaking of dormancy which carbon dioxide usually induces in legume seeds.