adjective. Sloping downward in opposite directions, as in an anticline.

adjective. Of or relating to the plane of a cell division perpendicular to the surface of a plant organ.

They may be inert

active (albuminigenous), or

cotyloid. Vesque.

Inclining in opposite directions from a central axis: applied to stratified rocks when they incline or dip from a central unstratified mass, or when in consequence of crust-movements they have been folded or pressed together so that they dip each way from a central plane, which indicates the line parallel to which the folding has taken place: opposed to synclinal. Occasionally anticlinic and anticlinical.

noun. In geology, an anticlinal line or axis, or an anticlinal fold; an anticlinal arrangement of strata: opposed to synclinal.

noun. The crest or line in which strata slope or dip in opposite directions.

adjective. Inclining or dipping in opposite directions. See synclinal.

adjective. occurring at right angles to the surface of a plant organ.

adjective. a line from which strata dip in opposite directions, as from the ridge of a roof.

adjective. undefined

adjective. one of the dorsal vertebræ, which in many animals has an upright spine toward which the spines of the neighboring vertebræ are inclined.

adjective. Used to describe a type of cell division in a layer of cells that occurs perpendicular to the adjacent layer of cells

adjective. Describing a torsion angle between 90° and 150°

noun. A fold that is convex up and has its oldest beds at its core.

adjective. sloping downward away from a common crest

"The so-called anticlinal structures, which have been found by experience to be so favorable to the accumulation of oil, are by no means symmetrical in shape or uniform in size."

anticlinal axis  anticlinal cells  anticlinal line  anticlinal planes  anticlinal valley  

anticlinal axis  

synclinal