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 Warder, J. A.

Their descendants gain the subjacent zone, and so the process goes on.

From The Industries of Animals by Houssay, Frédéric

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

The choroid coat will be recognized as the black layer lying subjacent to the sclerotic.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

I see the point of it clear and sharp, but I see also the vast subjacent mass of solid knowledge.”

From Studies in Contemporary Biography by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount