Subjacent vs Basal - What's the difference?
subjacent | basal | Related terms |
Lying beneath or at a lower level; underlying.
*2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 194-5:
*:Since the times of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, however, there had always been a subjacent stream of travel literature which had queried the civilizing function of Western penetration of such societies.
Relating to, or forming, the base, or point of origin.
(chiefly, systematics) In a phylogenetic tree, being a group, or member of a group, which diverged earlier.
As adjectives the difference between subjacent and basal
is that subjacent is lying beneath or at a lower level; underlying while basal is relating to, or forming, the base, or point of origin.As a noun basal is
any basal structure or part.subjacent
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(en adjective)See also
* superjacent ----basal
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(en adjective)- Hittite is a basal Indo-European language.
- A magnolia is a basal angiosperm.
