belowground
[ bih-loh-ground ]
adjective
situated beneath the surface of the earth; subterranean.
no longer living; buried, as in a cemetery (usually used predicatively): All those who might have known about the incident are now belowground.
Origin of belowground
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How to use belowground in a sentence
To find out what might be crawling belowground, Bruno Buzatto, of Macquarie University in Sydney and the University of Western Australia in Perth, and his colleagues lowered in cups baited with rotting leaf litter to attract hungry invertebrates.
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