superficies

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: su=per=fi=cies

CIDE DICTIONARY

superficies, n. [L., fr. super above, over + facies make, figure, shape. See Surface.].

•  The surface; the exterior part, superficial area, or face of a thing.  [1913 Webster]
•  Everything on the surface of a piece of ground, or of a building, so closely connected by art or nature as to constitute a part of it, as houses, or other superstructures, fences, trees, vines, etc.  Bouvier. Wharton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

superficies, n. (pl. same) Geom. a surface.

Etymology

L (as SUPER-, facies face)

ROGET THESAURUS

superficies

Exteriority

N exteriority, outside, exterior, surface, superficies, skin, superstratum, disk, disc, face, facet, extrados, excentricity, eccentricity, circumjacence, exterior, external, outer most, outward, outlying, outside, outdoor, round about, extramural, extralimitary, extramundane, superficial, skin-deep, frontal, discoid, extraregarding, excentric, eccentric, outstanding, extrinsic, ecdemic, exomorphic, externally, out, with out, over, outwards, ab extra, out of doors, extra muros, in the open air, sub Jove, sub dio, a la belle etoile, al fresco.