¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Caverns
1. cavern [v] - See also: cavern
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caverns
Literary usage of Caverns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1860)
"On Canadian caverns. By GEORGE D. GIBB, MD, MA, FGS, Member of the Canadian
Institute. For convenience of description, these caverns are divided into two ..."
2. Aspects of the Earth: A Popular Account of Some Familiar Geological Phenomena by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (1900)
"Effect of caverns on Imagination.—Classification of caverns. ... Living Animals
of caverns ; Bearing of Evidence on Darwinian T Geographical Distribution of ..."
3. An Introduction to Geology: Intended to Convey a Practical Knowledge of the by Robert Bakewell, Benjamin Silliman (1839)
"Subterranean Currents and caverns generally in calcareous Mountains. ...
caverns with Bones of extinct Species of Animals in Germany and France, ..."
4. Organic Remains of a Former World: An Examination of the Mineralized Remains by James Parkinson (1811)
"But these must yield to the caverns of Germany and of Hungary, ... Hungary, also,
has several similar caverns, which have deservedly engaged the attention ..."
5. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1862)
"The contents of caverns, then, is a part of the subject as varied as the history
of the caverns, ... Limestone caverns are not unfrequently mineral veins. ..."
6. A Geological Manual by Henry Thomas De La Beche (1833)
"Buckland pointed out that the general arrangements in caverns, are: 1. The original
sides of the cave, which may or may not be covered with stalagmite. 2. ..."
Other Resources:
