subjacent

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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

Perchance in meads The anchor oft is thrown, and oft the keel Tears the subjacent vine-tree.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.

But it must be borne in mind that all the nucleated masses of which the blastoderm consists are in continuity with each other and with the sparse protoplasmic reticulum of the subjacent yolk.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

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)

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