anticline
noun/ˈæntiklaɪn/
/ˈæntiklaɪn/
(geology)- an area of ground where layers of rock in the earth’s surface have been folded into a curve that is higher in the middle than at the ends compare synclineWord Originmid 19th cent.: from anti- + Greek klinein ‘lean’, on the pattern of incline.
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