cline
Meanings
Plural: clines
Noun
- American geneticist who succeeded in transferring a functioning gene from one mouse to another (born in 1934)
- A gradation in a character or phenotype within a species, deme, or other systematic group.
- Any graduated continuum.
- A generalized circle.
Origin / Etymology
From Ancient Greek κλῑ́νω (klī́nō, “to lean, incline”). Introduced by English evolutionary biologist and eugenicist Julian Huxley in 1938 after British mycologist John Ramsbottom suggested the term.
Synonyms
circline, generalized circle, Martin Cline
Scrabble Score: 7
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Words With Friends Score: 10
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