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ize of its formicaries. The sauba ant cuts off leaves of plants and carries them into its subterranean nests, and thus often does great damage by defoliating trees and cultivated plants.

A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like.

A drain or passage to carry off water and filth under ground; a subterraneous channel, particularly in cities.

a plant which bears leaves, or rudiments of leaves, whether rising above ground or wholly subterranean.

Subterranean. [Obs.] Bacon. -- n.

Subterraneous. [Obs.]

Subterranean.

Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle (Tuber melanosporum) and the English truffle (T. æstivum) are much esteemed as articles of food. Truffle worm (Zoöl.), the larva of a fly of the genus Leiodes, injurious to truffles. Truffle pig, a pig used for fin…

A lower conduit; a subterranean conduit. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

A subterranean room of any kind; esp., one under a church (see Crypt), or one used as a chapel or for any sacred purpose.

The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space. A spirit raised from depth of underground. Shak.

An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar. "Charnel vaults." Milton. The silent vaults of death. Sandys. To banish rats that haunt our vault. Swift.

rm, built up of cinders, tufa, or lava, during volcanic eruptions. -- Volcanic foci, the subterranean centers of volcanic action; the points beneath volcanoes where the causes producing volcanic phenomena are most active. -- Volcanic glass, the vitreous form of lava, produced by sudden cooling; obsidian. See Obsidian…

Well sweep. Same as Sweep, n., 12. -- Well water, the water that flows into a well from subterraneous springs; the water drawn from a well.