Definition of Caves

1. Noun. (plural of cave) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of cave) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Caves

1. cave [v] - See also: cave

Lexicographical Neighbors of Caves

cavernous sinus
cavernous sinus branch of internal carotid artery
cavernous sinus syndrome
cavernous sinus thrombosis
cavernous tissue
cavernous transfer of portal vein
cavernous voice
cavernous voice sound
cavernously
caverns
cavernulous
cavers
caves (current term)
caves in
cavesson
cavessons
cavetti
cavetto
cavettos
cavewoman
cavewomen
caviar
caviar lesion
caviar to the general
caviare
caviares
caviarie

Literary usage of Caves

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Field Geology by Frederic Henry Lahee (1917)
"caves.—Caverns in lava, which result from the very irregular way in which viscous lava moves, ... The Mammoth caves of Kentucky are the best known example. ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1901)
"THE Committee selected for the first operations a series of caves on the slopes ... Owing to the unsettled state of the weather, the excavation of the caves ..."

3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1885)
"They would all welcome him back with the greatest cordiality to the meetings of the Society and to the headquarters of " Big Maps." caves and Ruins at ..."

4. Fieldiana by Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago Natural History Museum, Field Columbian Museum (1895)
"OBSERVATIONS ON INDIANA caves. A visit of the writer to several caves in Indiana ... The caves visited were Wyandotte Cave, Crawford County; Marengo Cave, ..."

5. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1892)
"IT is common in writings on the origin of the cave fauna of the United Slates to assume that the recent formation of the caves of Kentucky is evidence of a ..."

6. Essay on the Theory of the Earth by Georges Cuvier, Robert Jameson (1827)
"ON caves CONTAINING BONES plains of that vast continent, have never been ... THE extraordinary accumulations of fossil bones in caves and caverns in ..."

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