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What is the adjective for anticline?

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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. (chemistry) Describing a torsion angle between 90° and 150°
  4. (geology) Consisting of, related to, or part of an anticline.
  5. Examples:
    1. “These subterranean muds are being uplifted into steeply dipping, anticlinal structures cored by strike-slip faulting.”
      “However, as the thrust sheets grow, the outer area of their anticlinal crest is extended.”
      “The rocks are on the west flank of the Monument uplift, a 60-mile-long north-trending anticlinal structure.”
anticlined
  1. (chemistry) Describing two equivalent chains of a crystalline polymer having opposite orientation
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