Lexicographical Neighbors of Epigean
Literary usage of Epigean
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1903)
"... a geological survey which shall do as much for hypogean geology as existing
surveys have done for epigean geology is now our crying need. ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"The cave fauna is not the result of accidental entrance of epigean forms.
The aquatic cave fauna has developed from those forms adapted to live in dark and ..."
3. Organic Evolution: A Text Book by Richard Swann Lull (1917)
"... form found in the caves about Conestoga Creek, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
and Jordan thinks it is evidently derived from local epigean species. ..."
4. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1908)
"... usually \ the height of the plant or more, mostly epigean. (Usually in wet
boggy ground, Northeastern North America, Europe and Asia ; also in Mexico ? ..."
5. Plant Life and Plant Uses: An Elementary Textbook, a Foundation for the by John Gaylord Coulter (1913)
"Germination in which they do appear above the soil is said to be epigean, a word
meaning above the soil. When the cotyledons remain below the soil, ..."
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