hypogea

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of hypogeum.
  hypogeum

  noun

  the underground part of a building, as a vault.

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hypogea

Arachidic acid is derived from Arachis hypogea, the scientific name for groundnuts or peanuts.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

For years archaeologists have debated whether the dual-level labyrinth of chambers beneath the Colosseum arena known as the hypogea support or disprove the notion that aquatic displays were staged in the arena.

From Slate ● Jan. 28, 2016

And around were a number of temples, of hypogea, of Roman ruins, of ruins of churches dating from the first centuries of Christianity.

From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by William Peter Baines

It has the additional term hypogea attached to it, which literally signifies subterranean.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds

The thousand little cupolas of saints of Islam are crumbling side by side with the Christian obelisks of the first centuries; and, underneath, the Pharaonic hypogea.

From Egypt (La Mort de Philae) by William Peter Baines

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