ADJECTIVE
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on or above the surface of the ground
surface transportation
aboveground nuclear testing
surface instruments for detecting oil deposits
How To Use aboveground In A Sentence
- He would fill the cores of bombs with explosives, and part of his job was to go to the aboveground nuclear tests in Nevada.
- During the day, leatherjackets mostly stay underground, but on damp, warm nights they come to the surface to feed on the aboveground parts of many plants.
- The underground and aboveground stems send out roots from each joint.
- Aboveground sprinklers cover large areas, such as lawns, most effectively but may encourage the spread of disease on roses, raspberries, beans, and other susceptible plants.
- In these aboveground collective social spaces his unhygienic, undomesticated presence is not proper; it signals defiance in its fetid, imposing refusal to be controlled or to disappear.
- Seasonal dynamics of aboveground biomass DW/FW and of biomass allocation in modules of Calamagrostis angustifolia, a typical wetland plant in the Sanjiang Plain, were studied in a field investigation.
- The subway goes aboveground, and New York in all its drabness slides past the window. Miracles, Inc.
- By the time the epicotyl, the aboveground part, shoots up, the hypocotyl has already made a good start on a stable root system. Chicago Reader
- As the lead attorney in a lawsuit filed last year against the Pentagon and other government agencies that ultimately resulted in the cancellation of a subnuclear blast, code-named Divine Strake, at the Nevada Test Site — which would have been the first aboveground explosion (and the first mushroom cloud) at the site since 1962 — Hager in fact knows as much about “who these people are” as anyone. Used Razor Blades
- These garlics still produce a flower stalk but rather than bearing fertile flowers, the stalk ends in an aboveground capsule containing small cloves or bulbils.