subjacent
[suhb-jey-suh nt]
adjective
situated or occurring underneath or below; underlying.
forming a basis.
lower than but not directly under something.
Origin of subjacent
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Now with a churn-staff, beat it till the thick substance just mentioned, be intimately blended with the subjacent fluid.
Their descendants gain the subjacent zone, and so the process goes on.
The Industries of AnimalsFrdric Houssay
The subjacent cellular tissue was much distended with serum.
It was not formed by the disintegration of the subjacent rocks, but by aqueous transport.
CornwallSabine Baring-Gould
Is not this second infinite, so to speak, subjacent to the first?
Les MisrablesVictor Hugo
subjacent
adjective
Word Origin for subjacent
C16: from Latin subjacēre to lie close, adjoin, be under, from sub- + jacēre to lie
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subjacent
[sŭb-jā′sənt]
adj.
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