Added 9 October 2026
cline
/klaɪn/ noun
noun Definition from WordNet 3.1, Princeton University. Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about cline at Wordnik → Where our words come from →
- American geneticist who succeeded in transferring a functioning gene from one mouse to another (born in 1934).
Origin
From Ancient Greek κλῑ́νω (klī́nō, “to lean, incline”). Introduced by English evolutionary biologist and eugenicist Julian Huxley in 1938 after British mycologist John Ramsbottom suggested the term.
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