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From anticline + -al.

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• Rhymes: -aɪnəl

anticlinal (comparative more anticlinal, superlative most anticlinal)

1. Inclining or dipping in opposite directions.
2. (botany) Used to describe a type of cell division in a layer of cells that occurs perpendicular to the adjacent layer of cells.
3. (physical chemistry) Describing a torsion angle between 90° and 150°.
4. (geology) Consisting of, related to, or part of an anticline.

• (geology): antiformal

• (geology): homoclinal, monoclinal, synclinal

anticlinal (plural anticlinals)

1. (geology) An anticlinal fold.
   • 1865, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, page 195:

     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, […]

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ti.kli.nal/

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anticlinal (feminine anticlinale, masculine plural anticlinaux, feminine plural anticlinales)

1. anticlinal

anticlinal m (plural anticlinaux)

1. anticline

• “anticlinal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

From anti- + clinal.

anticlinal m or f (plural anticlinais)

1. (geology) anticline (anticlinal fold)

anticlinal m or f (plural anticlinais)

1. anticlinal (inclining or dipping in opposite directions)

• “anticlinal”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “anticlinal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French anticlinal.

anticlinal n (plural anticlinale)

1. anticline

• IPA^(key): /antikliˈnal/ [ãn̪.t̪i.kliˈnal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: an‧ti‧cli‧nal

anticlinal m or f (masculine and feminine plural anticlinales)

1. anticlinal

• “anticlinal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025