Usually means: Pertaining to an earth's surface.
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  1. surficial: Merriam-Webster
  2. surficial: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. surficial: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. surficial: Collins English Dictionary
  5. surficial: Vocabulary.com
  6. surficial: Wordnik
  7. surficial: Wiktionary
  8. surficial: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. surficial: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. surficial: Dictionary.com
  11. surficial: Rhymezone
  12. surficial: FreeDictionary.org
  13. surficial: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. surficial: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. surficial: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adjective:  (geology, astronomy) Of or pertaining to the surface of something, particularly the surface of the Earth.

Similar:
surface, surfacial, surfacic, superficiary, geomorphic, exterior, planetary, outside, terrestrial, crustal, more...

Opposite:
subterranean, underground, deep, underlying

Types:
superficial, superficies, exterior, outward, extrinsic, surface, more...

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Similar:
surface, surfacial, surfacic, superficiary, geomorphic, exterior, planetary, outside, terrestrial, crustal, more...

Opposite:
subterranean, underground, deep, underlying

Types:
superficial, superficies, exterior, outward, extrinsic, surface, more...



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