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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
  1. 1

    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.