subjacent

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In from twenty-four to forty-eight hours a quantity of the germinating threads had bored through the walls and penetrated amongst the subjacent cells.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

From the ventral surface of the collar nerve-tube numerous motor fibres may be seen passing to the subjacent musculature.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

The central cavity, or valley, exposes to view the subjacent formation c, fig.

From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

The pebbles and larger masses of the conglomerate are quartzite, like that of the subjacent beds, and demonstrate the source of at least some of the material of the younger formation.

From The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin by Atwood, Wallace W.

Such a graph may be obviously dissected into a square, containing say θ� nodes, and into two graphs, one lateral and one subjacent, the latter being the conjugate of the former.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various