overlies in English

verb
1
lie on top of.
soft clays overlie the basalt
verb

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1. The O horizon overlies the A horizon.

2. 3 The granite overlies the older rocks.

3. 18 Clay overlies chalk in the southern mountains.

4. A bluish white cartilagenous cap overlies the bony cortex.

5. The active layer overlies the first layer, the active layer generating light.

6. 1 Clay overlies chalk in the southern mountains.

7. 8 The pinna consists of the auricular cartilages and the skin that overlies them.

8. It overlies capillaries in the Alveolar wall and comprises the vast majority of the surface area of the Alveolar wall (∼90%).

9. A new mechanoreceptor is described that overlies the adductor mandibulae jaw muscles and may be of use in the modulation of cyclic respiratory movements.

10. At least one impervious segment (20) positioned in the lumen overlies the abrading portions of the device to shield and buffer the catheter from the abrading portions.

11. A superficial layer of benign ciliated columnar epithelia focally overlies multiple layers of dysplastic cells underneath, an observation in support of a pre-existing inverted Schneiderian papilloma. Sentencedict.com

12. An Adiaphanous section which covers all of the groups of numbers on the base card which include the number corresponding to the respective overlay sheet when the respective overlay sheet overlies the base card

13. Ambulacrum (amb) In Echinodermata, an area of the body surface (covered in most classes by calcitic (see CALCITE) plates), that overlies one of the radial canals of the internal water vascular system, and bears the tube feet.In some echino-derms, e.g

14. ‘The prominent basement rocks of the Brumado area are Precambrian in age and consist dominantly of gneisses, schists, and Amphibolite.’ ‘A uniform, regionally concordant layer of Amphibolite with occasional ultramafic pods, termed the Sta Amphibolite, overlies the Sta Series.’

15. The Brontothere fossils occurred as float on poorly consolidat­ ed, reddish brown sandstone that direcdy overlies what paleobot-anists refer to as the "RST" coal zone (Basinger, personal com­ mun., 1997), equivalent to the coal seam at the 42 m level on Ricketts' (1991) measured section 28-85 (Ricketts, personal com­ mun