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Definition of Overtopped
1. overtop [v] - See also: overtop
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overtopped
Literary usage of Overtopped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Old Red Sandstone, Or, New Walks in an Old Field: To which is Appended a by Hugh Miller (1892)
"—In a fourth overtopped by a still older Sandstone Deposit.— Difficulties in
ascertaining the true Place of a newly-discovered Formation. ..."
2. The Forest Flora of North-west and Central India: A Handbook of the by John Lindsay Stewart, Dietrich Brandis (1874)
"... Linn., which is pubescent, and has anthers not overtopped by an apiculate
connective. The Japanese species, »S*. ..."
3. Rivers and Canals: The Flow, Control, and Improvement of Rivers and the by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1896)
"... respective advantages, conditions necessary for high banks, high banks overtopped
by rise of flood-level; Instances of Embanking Rivers, Mississippi, ..."
4. Forestry Quarterly by New York State College of Forestry (1913)
"In addition to this, a large part of the overtopped pines, ... •Only 238 of these
pine overtopped by hardwoods, the rest overtopped by pine. tt,16o of these ..."
5. The Nervous System of Vertebrates by John Black Johnston (1906)
"In both cases a more median and ventral body has been hypertrophied and has pushed
up until it has overtopped a more dorsal and lateral body. ..."
6. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1859)
"Culms (l°-3° long) and dander tenu leaves immersed and cellular ; spike overtopped
by a green bract, which appears like a prolongation of the culm, oblong, ..."
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