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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Formed, situated, or occurring beneath the ocean or the ocean bed.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Lying beneath the ocean.

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  • adjective Beneath the surface of the ocean.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective formed or situated or occurring beneath the ocean or the ocean bed

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Examples

  • Like idly looking up the cost of a hundred-mile run of suboceanic fibre-optic or a Rosicrucian mummy (one of the mummies in the San Jose Rosicrucian Museum came out of an old Neiman-Marcus Christmas Book).

    Boing Boing 2004

  • The rest of it is underwater or buried in the crust of the Earth, perhaps (some have speculated) exploiting the suboceanic magma as a source of energy.

    Spin 2005

  • (Aside, Charlie told me about a story he's working on where the French suboceanic nuclear tests were actually aimed at exterminating the cthuloid sea-monsters -- which is why the Brits didn't really protest)

    Boing Boing: June 9, 2002 - June 15, 2002 Archives 2002

  • "Captain Kirk, I am not going to go with those Proctors to some suboceanic cave as an experimental animal unless you give me a direct order to do so," Yeoman Janice Rand said firmly.

    The Abode of Life Lee Correy 1990

  • "Captain Kirk, I am not going to go with those Proctors to some suboceanic cave as an experimental animal unless you give me a direct order to do so," Yeoman Janice Rand said firmly.

    The Abode of Life Lee Correy 1990

  • They would survive the Ordeal in the safety of their suboceanic Keeps as they had done for uncounted generations.

    The Abode of Life Lee Correy 1990

  • They would survive the Ordeal in the safety of their suboceanic Keeps as they had done for uncounted generations.

    The Abode of Life Lee Correy 1990

  • They would survive the Ordeal in the safety of their suboceanic Keeps as they had done for uncounted generations.

    The Abode of Life Lee Correy 1990

  • "Captain Kirk, I am not going to go with those Proctors to some suboceanic cave as an experimental animal unless you give me a direct order to do so," Yeoman Janice Rand said firmly.

    The Abode of Life Lee Correy 1990

  • Considering that they reach from the bottom of the Pacific ocean (18,000 feet deep here) to over 15,000 feet above sea level, they really stand 33,000 feet high from their suboceanic base to their peaks.

    Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom Trumbull White 1904

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