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SUBSTRATUM
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Irregular inflected form: substrasta
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population
Example:
the Celtic languages of Britain are a substrate for English
Synonyms:
substrate; substratum
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("substratum" is a kind of...):
indigenous language (a language that originated in a specified place and was not brought to that place from elsewhere)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any stratum or layer lying underneath another
Synonyms:
substrate; substratum
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("substratum" is a kind of...):
stratum (one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock))
Sense 3
Meaning:
A surface on which an organism grows or is attached
Example:
the gardener talked about the proper substrate for acid-loving plants
Synonyms:
substrate; substratum
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("substratum" is a kind of...):
surface (the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object)
