clinal
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ˈklaɪnəl/
Etymology 1 [edit]
From Ancient Greek κλίνη (“bed”).
Adjective [edit]
clinal (not comparable)
- Pertaining to beds or rest.
- 1984, Anthony Burgess, Enderby's Dark Lady:
- ‘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.’
- 1984, Anthony Burgess, Enderby's Dark Lady:
- (chemistry) Describing a torsion angle between 30° and 150°
Etymology 2 [edit]
From cline.
Adjective [edit]
clinal (not comparable)
- Pertaining to a cline.
- 1994, Anders P Moller, Sexual Selection and the Barn Swallow, Oxford, published 2000, page 299:
- Clinal variation in the size of the secondary sexual character may be due to the effects of the Fisher or the handicap process.
- 1994, Anders P Moller, Sexual Selection and the Barn Swallow, Oxford, published 2000, page 299:
