subaerial.

Situated or occurring on land or at a surface exposed to the atmosphere.

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• subaerial surface

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A subaerial ridge divided the pools.

The subaerial surface showed weathering.

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Primary category: setting. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a spatial or institutional classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.