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Plural of substratum

irregular plural

The plural of substratum is substrata.

Forms of substratum

Singularsubstratum /səbˈstrɑ.təm/
Pluralsubstrata /səbˈstrɑ.tə/
Countablecountable

Substrata in a sentence

  • Pelophilous species burrow in sandy loam and clay soils, and display ecomorphological adaptations to assist with loosening these compacted substrata.2007, Bernhard A. Huber, Bradley J. Sinclair, Karl-Heinz Lampe, African Biodiversity, page 43. From the entry pelophilous

Meaning of substratum

  1. noun A layer that lies underneath another.
  2. noun The underlying cause or basis of something.
  3. noun A substrate.

Full definition of substratum

Nouns ending in -um: plural -a

Questions about the plural of substratum

What is the plural of substratum?
The plural of substratum is substrata.
Is substratum countable?
Substratum is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: substratum (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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