aboveground
- s on or above the surface of the ground
aboveground nuclear testing
- The mushrooms are aboveground appendages of the real organism, a tangled mass of stringlike tendrils that spread below the surface.
- Once only available as samizdat-style photocopied pamphlets, this year fans of Kevin Huizenga's comix have finally been rewarded with a regular, aboveground series.
- Though the authorities have many sophisticated tools at their disposal by 2014, it is projected that most of the border aboveground will be monitored by sensor-equipped towers .