understratum
noun
a substratum.
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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The explosions had jarred the none-too-stable understrata of rock into spasmodic motion that must grind everything to bits!
From Isle of the Undead by Eshbach, Lloyd Arthur