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anticlinals

anticlinals is the plural of anticlinal.

Meaning of anticlinal

Noun

anticlinal (plural anticlinals)

  1. An anticlinal fold.
    • But being chiefly sections of younger rocks than ours, the Austrian diagrams exhibit a more disturbed surface, so far as regards faults and slips, snapped anticlinals, upshoved synclinals, lapped folds, […]1865, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, page 195

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Questions about anticlinals

What is anticlinals the plural of?
Anticlinals is the plural of anticlinal.

Words near anticlinals in the dictionary

  1. anticlimbing
  2. anticlinal
  3. anticlinal vertebra
  4. anticlinal vertebrae
  5. anticlinally
  6. anticlinals
  7. anticline
  8. anticlined
  9. anticlines
  10. anticling
  11. anticlinical

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