subjacent
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The least desirable positions for orchard planting are narrow valleys, particularly limestone valleys in a mountainous country, traversed by a small brook, or where the surface is spouty from springs or subjacent water.
From American Pomology Apples by J. A. Warder
On removing the skin from the area in question, no kind or degree of irritation supplied to the subjacent tissue has any effect in producing a fit.
From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by George John Romanes
The portion immediately subjacent is called the subsoil, and it has considerable agricultural importance, and requires a short notice.
From Elements of Agricultural Chemistry by Thomas Anderson
Of these, the strata, near and under Paris, lying in a hollow of the subjacent strata, and hence termed the Paris Basin, attracted prominent notice in the first place.
From The Plurality of Worlds by Edward Hitchcock
No; but exceptionally, from accidental injury, the subjacent corium becomes inflamed, suppurates, and the thickened mass is cast off.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
