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What does overlying mean?

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Adjective
  1. lying over or upon something else
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These light guides may take the form of three overlying plastic or glass sheets.
There were ipsilateral matted axillary lymph nodes, and the overlying skin showed peau d' orange.
Leached residual soil and sediment of overlying strata occur within the dissolution pipes and pits.
The overlying thrombus had eroded and perforated the posterior mitral valve leaflet.
Finally, mangrove vegetation recolonized the area and the overlying soil developed.
Amygdaloidal cavities are located immediately below the uppermost scoriaceous part of the second flow, near its contact with the overlying flow.

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