Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as hypogeal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Hypogeous.

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  • adjective Existing or growing underground.

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Examples

  • The paper is entitled Gollumjapyx smeagol gen. n., sp. n., an enigmatic hypogean japygid (Diplura: Japygidae) from the eastern Iberian Peninsula, the authors A. Sendra, V. Ortuno, A. Moreno, S. Montagud and S. Teruel describe the species, originally found 25 years ago but now supported by more data, as:

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • The new species is highly adapted to hypogean life with very obvious troglobiomorphic features: unpigmented cuticle, an extraordinary lengthening of thorax and appendixes, multiplication of antennomeres and supernumerary placoid sensilla, not just in the apical antennomere but also in the preceding antennomeres.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • The new species has been located inside six average-sized underground caves, generally in the deepest areas, and may be one of the major hypogean predators in the Iberian Peninsula, with a diet that ranges from Acari to Anillini carabids.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • It is therefore the only manifestly hypogean japygid species in the Iberian Peninsula, where only Metajapyx moroderi Silvestri, was known in certain caves of the eastern reaches of the Prebetic range.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • These traits make it the most exceptional of all the hypogean Japygidae known to date, with troglobiomorphic characteristics more accentuated than in other hypogean taxa known in the rest of the world.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • Mercedes on a hypogean joyride and demolishing it.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ANDREW CLARK 2011

  • Mercedes on a hypogean joyride and demolishing it.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ANDREW CLARK 2011

  • Mercedes on a hypogean joyride and demolishing it.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed ANDREW CLARK 2011

  • In any event, if the ‘marquise’ had a weakness for little boys, when she threw open to them the hypogean doors of those cubicles of stone in which men crouch like sphinxes, she must have been moved to that generosity less by the hope of corrupting them than by the pleasure which all of us feel in displaying a needless prodigality to those whom we love, for I have never seen her with any other visitor except an old park-keeper.

    Within a Budding Grove 2003

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