SUBSTRATUM
- something that is spread or laid under something else; a stratum or layer lying under another
- something that underlies or serves as a basis or foundation
- the subsoil
- that which underlies something, as a layer of earth lying under another also SUBSTRATE [n SUBSTRATA or SUBSTRATUMS]
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