single thickness of usually some homogeneous substance; slices of hard-boiled egg on a bed of spinach

[ Syn: bed ]

a relatively thin sheetlike expanse or region lying over or under another

an abstract place usually conceived as having depth; a good actor communicates on several levels; a simile has at least two layers of meaning; the mind functions on many strata simultaneously

[ Syn: level , stratum ]

a hen that lays eggs

thin structure composed of a single thickness of cells

make or form a layer; layer the different colored sands'