Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SYN-CLI'NAL, or SYN-CLIN'IC
SYN'CHY-SISSYNCLINICAL-LINE, or AXIS
SYN-CLI'NAL, or SYN-CLIN'IC, a. [or SYN-CLIN'IC-AL. Gr. συν and κλινω.]
Dipping toward each other; as strata. The line in which such strata meet, is called the synclinal line.
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