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paratectonic

paratectonic adjective: relating to, or produced by a large-scale deformation or parageosyncline.

Adjective

paratectonic (not comparable)

  1. Relating to, or produced by a large-scale deformation or parageosyncline

Origin of paratectonic

From para- + tectonic.

Questions about paratectonic

What does paratectonic mean?
Paratectonic means relating to, or produced by a large-scale deformation or parageosyncline.
What part of speech is paratectonic?
Paratectonic is an adjective.

Words near paratectonic in the dictionary

  1. parataxonomic
  2. parataxonomical
  3. parataxonomist
  4. parataxonomists
  5. parataxonomy
  6. paratectonic
  7. paratellurite
  8. paratendinous
  9. paratendon
  10. paratendons
  11. paratenial

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