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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: American geneticist who succeeded in transferring a functioning gene from one mouse to another (born in 1934) [syn: Cline, Martin Cline]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Greek klinein Date: 1938 a gradient of morphological or physiological change in a group of related organisms usually along a line of environmental or geographic transition • clinal adjective • clinally adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Biol. the graded sequence of differences within a species etc. Derivatives: clinal adj. Etymology: Gk klino to slope