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Substrate

noun

The substance that is acted upon by an enzyme or ferment.

A surface on which an organism grows or is attached. Synonym: substratum.

Any stratum or layer lying underneath another. Synonym: substratum.

An indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population. Synonym: substratum.

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... pelage of individuals from one and a half miles southwest of Tocuina is notably dark both above and below; the venter is dusky rather than white. We suppose that the darker color is a response to a dark-colored substrate—lava and ...

— Conspecificity of two pocket mice, Perognathus goldmani and P. artus • E. Raymond Hall

... the principle that complete explanation of psychical facts is possible only through the physiological substrate, we have so far kept rather to that field in dealing with the foundations of our pleasure in rhythm. But further description of the rhythmical experience is most natural in psychological terms. There seems, indeed, on principle no ground for the current antithesis, so much emphasized of late, ...

— The Psychology of Beauty • Ethel D. Puffer

... interpreter, to point out the Old Man of the Sea, the First One, and to tell how to catch him? In the very names of Proteus and Eidothea we feel the intention, the conscious etymology which borders on personification. Yet around this simple substrate of thought are woven so many wonders, so many suggestions, far-hinting and deep-glancing, that it becomes truly the Tale ...

— Homer's Odyssey - A Commentary • Denton J. Snider