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- noun Plural form of
understratum .
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It was not a case of a landslide suddenly sweeping down, but long prepared for by the gradual percolation of water to the slippery understrata, but the solid earth was shaken, and the mountain crashed down in sudden ruin.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts Alexander Maclaren 1868
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