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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Geology A fold with strata sloping downward on both sides from a common crest.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Same as anticlinal.

Wiktionary

  1. n. geology A fold with strata sloping downwards on each side.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Geol.) A structure of bedded rocks in which the beds on both sides of an axis or axial plane dip away from the axis; an anticlinal. Contrassted with syncline.

Etymologies

  1. anti- + -cline (Wiktionary)

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  • reesetee ...and thus belongs on my back-formations list! Thanks for the reminder, slumry. Jul 11, 2007

  • slumry Interestingly, this is a back formation from anticlinal. I did not know that. Jul 11, 2007

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