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verbhollow out as if making a cavern
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nouna large cave or a large chamber in a cavetype of:
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"his eyes were dark caverns"nounany large dark enclosed spacetype of:
Definition that contains cavern
- sink a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- cavern hollow out as if making a cavern
- sinkhole a depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
- cavernous being or suggesting a cavern
- mammoth cave national park a national park in Kentucky having a large cavern and an underground river
- vena ophthalmica either of two veins that serve the eye; empties into the cavernous sinus
- superior ophthalmic vein a vein that begins at the inner angle of the eye socket and passes through the superior orbital fissure to empty into the cavernous sinus
- carlsbad caverns national park a national park in New Mexico featuring what is probably the world's largest cavern with spectacular underground formations
- ophthalmic vein either of two veins that serve the eye; empties into the cavernous sinus
- venae cerebrum inferior veins that drain the undersurface of the cerebral hemispheres and empty into the cavernous and transverse sinuses