superjacent

How to use superjacent in a sentence

• A root which was exposed to view, through the washing away of the superjacent soil, measured 110 feet in length.

  The Desert World|Arthur Mangin

• When the normal tissue was not injured I never saw any that were not superjacent and could not easily be peeled off (croupous).

  A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I|Various

• The superjacent skin is tense and glistening, and the surrounding veins are more or less distended.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3|Various

• We must not think, however, that all earth containing this ferment is capable of poisoning the superjacent atmosphere.

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884|Various