hypogeum
/hahy-puh-jee-uhm, hip-uh-/US // ˌhaɪ pəˈdʒi əm, ˌhɪp ə- //UK // (ˌhaɪpəˈdʒiːəm) //
下丘陵区,下丘脑,下丘陵地区,卵母细胞
Definitions
n.名词 noun
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plural hy·po·ge·a [hahy-puh-jee-uh, hip-uh-]. /ˌhaɪ pəˈdʒi ə, ˌhɪp ə-/.
- : Ancient Architecture. the underground part of a building, as a vault.
- : an underground burial chamber.
Examples
Verily you would think that the painter of these figures of the shades had only just quitted the hypogeum.
We shall call attention, however, to a hypogeum at Gizeh, which is numbered 81 in Lepsius's map of that tomb-field.
Violate the tombs, if she has taken refuge in the abodes of death, far within some passage or hypogeum.
That moment an old man, wearing a hooded mantle but with a bare head, issued from the hypogeum.
Here and there were separate monuments, and in the centre was the entrance to the hypogeum itself, or crypt.
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