Although beaks vary significantly in size, shape and color, they share a similar underlying structure.
Panels were riveted to each other and to the underlying structure.
It was precious little, yet it seemed to him he could see the underlying structure.
His instinct was for the pressures and stresses within the rock that provided what one saw with its underlying structure.
Genealogy forms the underlying structure of all family tree software.
"Provides the underlying structure of the common language runtime security system."
If there is any underlying structure, it is not apparent.
Is music to be understood in terms of its surface sound, or more profoundly through its underlying structure?
Admittedly you often do have to search for an underlying structure in Berlioz's work.
Before taking a closer look, we might review the underlying structure of crystals.