单词 | supracrust |
释义 | > as lemmassupracrust (a) Prefixed to nouns, forming nouns denoting the upper part of something, or an object situated on top of another, as supracrust, suprasoil, suprastructure. ΚΠ 1818 Mem. Philadelphia Soc. for promoting Agric. IV. 260 To ascertain whether the supra-soil or spungy substance be so thick, as to fall greatly when decomposed. 1921 R. H. Bell Woman from Bondage to Freedom 77 It persists only as a flaw in every suprastructure that ever has been builded on the bedrock of decency and natural commonsense. 1969 Pacific Affairs 42 166 The democratic suprastructures so launched..lacked congruity with the then existing socio-economic foundations or substructures. 1992 D. Roeder & P. Scandone in D. Blundell et al. Continent Revealed vi. 206 Imbrication within the detached supracrust. < as lemmas |
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