clinal
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
/ˈklaɪnəl/
Definition of clinal
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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(not-comparable)Pertaining to beds or rest.
“‘Strange,’ Enderby said. ‘Here we both are, in a clinal situation so to speak, a bed context I mean, the Greek word means to lean or repose I suppose, hence bed, hence clinic by the way, and this has nothing to do with my feverish imaginings.’”
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adj
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(not-comparable)Pertaining to beds or rest.
“‘Strange,’ Enderby said. ‘Here we both are, in a clinal situation so to speak, a bed context I mean, the Greek word means to lean or repose I suppose, hence bed, hence clinic by the way, and this has nothing to do with my feverish imaginings.’”
- (not-comparable, physical)Describing a torsion angle between 30° and 150°
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(not-comparable)Pertaining to a cline.
“Clinal variation in the size of the secondary sexual character may be due to the effects of the Fisher or the handicap process.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Ancient Greek κλίνη (klínē, “bed”) + -al.
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