Clinal

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈklaɪnÉ™l/

From Ancient Greek κλίνη ("bed").

Full definition of clinal

Adjective

1. 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.’
2. (chemistry) Describing a torsion angle between 30° and 150°

From cline.

Adjective

1. Pertaining to a cline.
• 1994, Anders P Moller, Sexual Selection and the Barn Swallow, Clinal variation in the size of the secondary sexual character may be due to the effects of the Fisher or the handicap process.

Anagrams

• call in, call-in, callin', incall