OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 20698

underlying

Meanings (ES + gloss)
subyacente
lying underneath
Old Yew, which graspest at the stones ⁠That name the under-lying dead, ⁠Thy fibres net the dreamless head, Thy roots are wrapt about the bones.
We dug down to the underlying rock.
agazapado • implícito • subyacente
implicit
Many nursery rhymes have an underlying meaning.
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