Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SU-PRA-CRE-TA'CEOUS, or SU-PER-CRE-TA'CEOUS
SU-PRA-CIL'IA-RYSU-PRA-DE-COM'POUND
SU-PRA-CRE-TA'CEOUS, or SU-PER-CRE-TA'CEOUS, a. [L. supra or super, and creta.]
In geology, applied to rocks which lie above the chalk.
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