subjacent

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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

The subjacent rocks consist of alternations of black slate, limestone, and serpentine.

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

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 Romanes, George John

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

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.