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Subjacent

//sʌbˈdʒeɪsənt// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Lying beneath or at a lower level; underlying.

    "In some places, however, quartz reefs, payably auriferous while in Silurian rock, have been followed down to subjacent granite, and have there been found to thin out and become unprofitable […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    lying nearby but lower wordnet

Etymology

From Latin subiaceō (“lie beneath”).

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