subjacent

Definition

Lying beneath or at a lower level; underlying.

Etymology

From Latin subiaceō (“lie beneath”).

Example Sentences

• "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 […]"
• "Since the times of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, however, there had always been a subjacent stream of travel literature which had queried the civilizing function of Western penetration of such societies."
• "[in relation to the second floor flat in a tenement building] the subjacent first floor and ground floor flats were ... owned by the first defenders."