Definition of terrane

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Terrane (n.) A group of rocks having a common age or origin; -- nearly equivalent to formation, but used somewhat less comprehensively..

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Intervene :: Intervene (v. i.) To come between, or to be between, persons or things; -- followed by between; as, the Mediterranean intervenes between Europe and Africa..
Subthalamic :: Subterrestrial (a.) Subterranean.
Stellionate :: Stellion (n.) A lizard (Stellio vulgaris), common about the Eastern Mediterranean among ruins. In color it is olive-green, shaded with black, with small stellate spots. Called also hardim, and star lizard..
Padrone :: Padrone (n.) The master of a small coaster in the Mediterranean.
Mattamore :: Mattamore (n.) A subterranean repository for wheat.
Circumterraneous :: Circumterraneous (a.) Being or dwelling around the earth.
Box :: Box (n.) A Mediterranean food fish; the bogue.
Mine :: Mine (v. i.) A subterranean cavity or passag.
Ombre :: Ombre (n.) A large Mediterranean food fish (Umbrina cirrhosa): -- called also umbra, and umbrine..
Bletonism :: Bletonism (n.) The supposed faculty of perceiving subterraneous springs and currents by sensation; -- so called from one Bleton, of France..
Exterraneous :: Exterraneous (a.) Foreign; belonging to, or coming from, abroad..
Sponge :: Sponge (n.) The elastic fibrous skeleton of many species of horny Spongiae (keratosa), used for many purposes, especially the varieties of the genus Spongia. The most valuable sponges are found in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and on the coasts of Florida and the West Indies..
Pistacia :: Pistacia (n.) The name of a genus of trees, including the tree which bears the pistachio, the Mediterranean mastic tree (Pistacia Lentiscus), and the species (P. Terebinthus) which yields Chian or Cyprus turpentine..
Mediterranean :: Mediterranean (a.) Inland; remote from the ocean.
Matweed :: Matweed (n.) A name of several maritime grasses, as the sea sand-reed (Ammophila arundinacea) which is used in Holland to bind the sand of the seacoast dikes (see Beach grass, under Beach); also, the Lygeum Spartum, a Mediterranean grass of similar habit..
Scape :: Scape (n.) A peduncle rising from the ground or from a subterranean stem, as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like..
Underground :: Underground (n.) The place or space beneath the surface of the ground; subterranean space.
Botargo :: Botargo (n.) A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink..
Plutonic :: Plutonic (a.) Of or pertaining to Pluto; Plutonian; hence, pertaining to the interior of the earth; subterranean..
Subterrany :: Subterrany (a.) Subterranean.
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