peri·cline
| \ ˈperəˌklīn \
plural -s
Definition of pericline
1
: a variety of albite occurring in white opaque crystals elongated in the direction of the macro-axis and often twinned with this axis as twinning axis
2
: one of the layers making up a periclinal chimera
3
: a periclinal cell wall
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