Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SYNCLINICAL-LINE, or AXIS
SYN-CLI'NAL, or SYN-CLIN'ICSYN'CO-PATE
SYNCLINICAL-LINE, or AXIS, n. [Synclinical line or axis; Gr. συγκλινω, to bend down.]
In geology, where the strata dip downward in opposite directions, like the sides of a gutter.
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