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palinspastically

palinspastically adverb: in a palinspastic fashion.

Adverb

palinspastically (comparative more palinspastically, superlative most palinspastically)

  1. In a palinspastic fashion.
    • If reconstructed palinspastically for 300 km of right lateral movement on the San Andreas fault, these strata would lie west to northwest of Paleozoic to Lower Mesozoic strata in Sonora.2005, Thomas Howard Anderson, The Mojave-Sonora Megashear Hypothesis, page 211

Forms of palinspastically

comparativemore palinspastically
superlativemost palinspastically

Origin of palinspastically

From palinspastic + -ally.

Questions about palinspastically

What does palinspastically mean?
Palinspastically means in a palinspastic fashion.
What part of speech is palinspastically?
Palinspastically is an adverb.

Words near palinspastically in the dictionary

  1. palinopsia
  2. palinquin
  3. palinquins
  4. Palins
  5. palinspastic
  6. palinspastically
  7. Palinta
  8. palintocia
  9. palintrope
  10. palintropes
  11. palinurid

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