Cline

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A gradual change in a character or feature across the distributional range of a species or population, usually correlated with an environmental or geographic transition.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A gradation in a character or phenotype within a species or other group.
  • n. Any graduated continuum.
  • Word Usage
    "Hate to muddy the waters, Jenny, but apparently it's not meaningful to give average weights because there is a "cline" in size from Spitzbergen, where the bears are smallest, to the Bering Strait where they are largest."
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    Words that are more generic or abstract
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    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Aline    Combine    Dine    Heine    Jain    Klein    Kline    Quine    Rhine    Stein