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Tweet suff. Slope: anticline. [Back-formation from -CLINAL.] |
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n. A gradual change in a character or feature across the distributional range of a species or population, usually correlated with an environmental or geographic transition. clinal (klīnəl) adj. |
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American singer best known for country and western ballads such as "I Fall to Pieces" (1960) and "Crazy" (1961). |
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