Verb (used with object) : The form "boy" underlies "boyish.". From Dictionary.com.
This region is underlain by basalt up to two miles thick. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of the United States-Level III (EPA)] Reference
Most of the surface, however, is underlain by Ordovician carbonates. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Iowa and Missouri (EPA)] Reference
It is mostly underlain by volcanic ash, rhyolite, and tuffaceous rocks. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Nevada (EPA)] Reference
And so it is, but this woe is underlain by the keenest brute suffering. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
Much of the ecoregion is underlain by carbonate-rich, Palaeozoic bedrock. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Great Lakes forests] Reference
The grass-covered Flint Hills are underlain by cherty limestone and shale. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA)] Reference
The Ozark Highlands (39) are largely underlain by flat-lying, cherty limestone. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA)] Reference
The territory underlain with this natural gas has not yet been clearly defined. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885] Reference
In its native habitat soils are often sandy or clayish and are underlain with rock. From Wordnik.com. [6. Best-Known Species] Reference
The region has an arctic climate, and the entire area is underlain by thick permafrost. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of the United States-Level III (EPA)] Reference
The area is underlain by hard-rock with limited groundwater potential (dug wells only). From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 11] Reference
The surface soils are saline-alkaline, underlain by unripe near-impermeable silty clays. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
Uplands are underlain by Pennsylvanian strata including cliff-forming sandstone and coal. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Kentucky (EPA)] Reference
The Lake Agassiz Plain is composed of thick lacustrine sediments underlain by glacial till. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of North Dakota and South Dakota (EPA)] Reference
The area is underlain by thick permafrost and many ice-related surface features are present. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of the United States-Level III (EPA)] Reference
Geologically, it consists mainly of schist and gneisses underlain in some parts by granites. From Wordnik.com. [Araya and Paria xeric scrub] Reference
Ecoregion 69d is underlain by flat-lying Pennsylvanian shale, siltstone, sandstone, and coal. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Kentucky (EPA)] Reference
The Lower Canadian Hills ecoregion is underlain by Pennsylvanian-age shale, sandstone, and coal. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA)] Reference
The Arkansas Valley Plains ecoregion is underlain by Pennsylvanian-age shale, sandstone, and coal. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA)] Reference
The second was unchanging and relentless in its lightweight fury: anger underlain with resentment. From Wordnik.com. [Running from the Deity]
The marsh areas are underlain by silts and clays which extend to an unknown depth below the surface. From Wordnik.com. [North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina] Reference
Its grass-covered, open, low hills, cuestas, and plains are underlain by cherty limestone and shale. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA)] Reference
Its low terraces, marshes, dunes, barrier islands, and beaches are underlain by unconsolidated sediments. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of the United States-Level III (EPA)] Reference
This mountainous ecoregion is underlain by Cenozoic volcanics and has been affected by alpine glaciations. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of the United States-Level III (EPA)] Reference
Like the ranges, the Carbonate Sagebrush Valleys (13p) are also largely underlain by limestone or dolomite. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Nevada (EPA)] Reference
The Red Prairie is nearly level to rolling and underlain by Permian sandstone, shale, gypsum, and siltstone. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA)] Reference
The mountains and plateaus are underlain by granite and metamorphic rocks and thinly mantled by glacial till. From Wordnik.com. [Adirondack-New England Mixed Forest - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey)] Reference
The Rolling Red Hills (27q) ecoregion is mostly underlain by red, Permian-age sandstone, shale, and siltstone. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA)] Reference
The Inceptisol soils are generally poorly drained and shallow; the entire peninsula is underlain by permafrost. From Wordnik.com. [Seward Peninsula Tundra - Meadow Province (Bailey)] Reference
The subtlest consciousness and energy have underlain each of those moments, because they are there all the time. From Wordnik.com. [The Compassionate Heart of Bodhichitta] Reference
Ecoregion 13e receives some summer precipitation, and is characteristically underlain by limestone and dolomite. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Nevada (EPA)] Reference
The grass - and shrub-covered Broken Red Plains ecoregion is mostly underlain by Permian-age sandstone and shale. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA)] Reference
The rolling hills of the Northwestern Cross Timbers are underlain by Permian-age sandstone, siltstone, and shale. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA)] Reference
It is underlain by sedimentary and metamorphic rock in contrast to the adjoining Cascades which are composed of volcanics. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of the United States-Level III (EPA)] Reference
It is underlain by a mix of metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary rocks, with soils that are mostly Alfisols and some Ultisols. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of the United States-Level III (EPA)] Reference
The Piedmont Plains and Tablelands ecoregion is a vast area of irregular and dissected plains underlain by shale and sandstone. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Colorado (EPA)] Reference
Evapotranspiration is similar in magnitude to runoff as a principal mechanism of water loss from a watershed underlain by permafrost. From Wordnik.com. [Terrestrial Water Balance in the Arctic] Reference
The soils are principally underlain by sediments of the Dwyka Formation, which are covered by the Ecca and Beaufort groups respectively. From Wordnik.com. [Nama Karoo] Reference
The Prairie Tableland ecoregion is nearly level, dominated by cropland, and underlain by Permian red shale, soft sandstone, and siltstone. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Oklahoma (EPA)] Reference
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