The movie opens innocently enough; a group of six girlfriends descend upon an ultra-narrow cavern system, only to discover their being chased and hunted by things that aren't entirely human. Evan Romano, Men's Health, 30 Aug. 2022 Demand surged for gasoline and other oil products after the economy roared out of the cavern created by the coronavirus.CBS News, 1 July 2022 Listed at $875,000, the house features a deck with a secret door that descends into a cavern complete with electricity and handrails. Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2022 The team of scientists from New Zealand drilled through the ice shelf and dropped a camera into the cavern below. Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2022 Sunlight illuminates only part of the cavern’s bottom; the rest is out of reach, and remains permanently shadowed. Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 29 July 2022 Ryder and the PAW Patrol discover a secret treasure map while on a mission to rescue Cap’n Turbot from a mysterious cavern.The Courier-Journal, 15 July 2022 Their hope is that more people can experience it—no matter what happens to the historic cavern. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 June 2022 A year later, Fuller built a wooden dance floor and installed some of the city’s first electric lights in the cavern, creating a popular entertainment destination.Wired, 10 July 2022
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In the hunt, scientists have erected detectors in a South Dakota cavern a mile underground, at the bottom of Lake Baikal in Siberia, under a mountain in Japan, and on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea. Robert Lee Hotz, WSJ, 12 July 2018 See More
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Etymology
Noun
Middle English caverne, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin caverna "hollow space, crevice, tree hole, cave," from cavus "hollow, sunken" + -erna, noun-forming suffix of uncertain origin — more at hole entry 1