subterrene

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A machine for drilling or tunneling underground. rare
    — With a deafening screech of metal upon rock—which surely must echo through all the recesses of the Mountain, and waken all its nightmare brood!—the subterrene smashed through the wall and came to rest beside them.
形容词 adj.
  1. underground, subterranean
    — Then he saw a sort of grey phosphorescence about, and guessed they were coming even to that inner world of subterrene horror of which dim legends tell, and which is litten only by the pale death-fire wherewith reeks the ghoulish air and the primal mists of the pits at earth’s core.

词形变化

more subterrene comparative most subterrene superlative subterrenes plural

词源

词源 1
From Latin subterrēnus. By surface analysis, sub- + terrene.
词源 2
From Latin subterrēnus. By surface analysis, sub- + terrene.
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