Syn`cli*no"ri*um (?), n.; pl. Synclinoria (#). [NL., fr. Gr. to lay together + mountain.] Geol.

A mountain range owing its origin to the progress of a geosynclinal, and ending in a catastrophe of displacement and upturning.

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