superincumbent

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   lying, resting, or pressing on top of something else

   The lower rock was compressed by the weight of superincumbent strata.

From Latin superincumbent-, the stem of superincumbens ("lying upon"), the present participle of superincumbere. That verb combines super ("above, upon") with incumbere ("to lie or lean on").

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