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aboveground

[ uh-buhv-ground ]

adjective

  1. situated on or above the ground.
  2. not secret or hidden; in the open:

    the aboveground activities of the country's left-wing faction.



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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of aboveground1

First recorded in 1875–80; above + ground 1
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For all its plant and animal life aboveground, the Amazon rainforest’s soils are surprisingly poor in nutrients necessary for growing food.

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The man then pushed the woman onto the tracks and dragged her across the concrete freeway divider and onto the 210 Freeway, which runs parallel to the aboveground Metro platform, the reports said.

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He credits “The Tub Pond Handbook” by Ted Coletti and the “California Native Water Plants and Life” Facebook group with helping him maintain the 85-gallon aboveground “tub pond” he installed outside his Monterey Park home.

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The volcanic roiling of inner earth merges with political churning aboveground.

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In the Central Valley alone, the unused aquifer space where water has been drained by pumping could hold more than three times the total capacity of the state’s aboveground reservoirs, Fogg said.

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