substratum
noun
something that is spread or laid under something else; a stratum or layer lying under another.
substrata
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pluralof substratum.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"Destructive human activities, like seafloor dredging, which razes entire marine communities, have turned seafloors into structurally simplified habitats with little settlement substrata or localised adult oysters to seed recovery," says Dr McAfee.
From Science Daily ● May 9, 2024
This substrata of despondency adds ballast to a novel that sometimes seems to want to drift off, like a hot-air balloon, into an ionospheric layer of pure twinkle and whimsy.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2019
As if building a layer cake, he and his crew applied the substrata, the flashing, the shingles, the roll roofing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2018
Carrie Coon in this scene is a tour-de-force, telling a story that’s either an intensely spiritual pilgrimage to the substrata of existence or a lie that gets her to sleep at night.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2017
It has wrought upon flitting, sensible phenomena rather than upon abiding substrata of facts.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by William Rounseville Alger
