subjacent

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Their sides are deeply covered with sand and clay, arising most probably from the disintegration of the subjacent rocks.

From Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea by Franklin, John

On the other hand, the membrane may not differ from the subjacent liquid in chemical composition, but only in physical properties.

From The Mechanism of Life by Leduc, Stéphane

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

In width they equal the seven subjacent scales of the peduncle, and are more than half as long as the basal margin of the carina.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

All is prepared, so to say, for some empirical short-cut to a fuller control of these subjacent pictures; just as before Mesmer and Puys�gur all was prepared for an empirical short-cut to trance, somnambulism, suggestibility.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)