Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Being above ground or above the earth; superterrestrial.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Being above ground, or above the earth.
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- adjective Above
ground ; above the earth.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Mr. Peregrine Palmer's grandfather had begun to make the family fortune by developing a little secret still in a remote highland glen, which had acquired a reputation for its whisky, into a great superterrene distillery.
What's Mine's Mine — Volume 1 George MacDonald 1864
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Mr. Peregrine Palmer's grandfather had begun to make the family fortune by developing a little secret still in a remote highland glen, which had acquired a reputation for its whisky, into a great superterrene distillery.
What's Mine's Mine — Complete George MacDonald 1864
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For myself, I am the unknown and unpitied victim of a chronic gutta-percha panic: I never could get on without it; to me, gutta percha and Rowland Hill are the great discoveries of our day; and not unconnected either, gutta percha being to the submarine post what Rowland Hill is to the superterrene.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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