Usually means: Gradual change in species characteristics.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word cline:

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  1. -cline, cline: Merriam-Webster
  2. cline: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cline: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. -cline, cline: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Cline: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cline, Cline, cline, cLine: Wordnik
  7. Cline, -cline, cline: Wiktionary
  8. cline: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cline: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. -cline, cline: Dictionary.com
  11. Cline (biology), Cline (disambiguation), Cline (fish), Cline (hydrology), Cline (linguistics), Cline (mathematics), Cline (population genetics), Cline (surname), Cline: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Cline: Rhymezone
  13. -cline, cline: MyWord.info
  14. cline: FreeDictionary.org
  15. cline: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Cline: TheFreeDictionary.com
  17. Cline: Infoplease Dictionary
  18. cline: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -cline: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cline: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. cline: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bryological (No longer online)
  5. cline: Evolution Glossary
  6. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)
  7. Glossary of Avian Terms For Use in Avian Conservation Biology (No longer online)
  8. Biodiversity (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cline: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See clinal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (systematics, evolution, biogeography) A gradation in a character or phenotype within a species, deme, or other systematic group.
noun:  Any graduated continuum.
noun:  (geometry, inversive geometry) A generalized circle.
noun:  A surname.

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