Definition of Clinal

1. Adjective. Pertaining to beds or rest. ¹

2. Adjective. (chemistry) Describing a torsion angle between 30° and 150° ¹

3. Adjective. Pertaining to a cline. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Clinal

1. pertaining to a cline [adj] - See also: cline

Lexicographical Neighbors of Clinal

climbing maidenhair fern
climbing nightshade
climbing nightshades
climbing onion
climbing perch
climbing salamander
climbing the walls
climbing wall
climbings
climbs
climbs the walls
clime
climes
climograph
clinafloxacin
clinal (current term)
clinally
clinamen
clinamens
clinanthia
clinanthium
clinch
clinch nut
clinched
clincher
clincher-built
clinchers
clinches
clinching
clinchingly

Literary usage of Clinal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1904)
"Is it an anti-clinal formation ? Thirdly. Are there any known bituminous beds ... North and South Downs are simply the outliers of an enormous anti-clinal. ..."

2. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"In clinal wall below), in which are shown two this cell an apical cell with segments (the third behind) cut off by the ..."

3. Molecular Markers in Plant Genome Analysis: Sponsored CRIS/ICAR Projects and by Andrew Kalinski (1995)
"clinal variation was evident for three "random amplified polymorphic DNA" loci ... Similar clinal variation was also discovered for a transect that included ..."

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