stratify

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From French stratifier.

Probably wrong about cones, for formations look stratified. — At the mountains of madness, H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft
They are high as mountains, these uneven, varied surges, rising exactly like unchained billows, but still larger, and stratified like watered silk. — Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Unknown
Garnet and Winona knew nothing of geology, so they listened with due meekness while the instructed few discoursed learnedly on palaeozoic rocks, stratified conglomerates and quartzites. — The Luckiest Girl in the School, Angela Brazil

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