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SUBSTRATUM

Pronunciation (US):

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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)

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