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Webster 1913 Edition

Anticlinorium

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Anˊti-cli-no′ri-um

,

Noun.

;

pl.

Anticlinoria

.

[NL., fr. Gr.

ἀντί

against +

κλίνειν

to incline +

ὄροσ

mountain.]

(Geol.)

The upward elevation of the crust of the earth, resulting from a geanticlinal.