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Definition of: anticlinorium
(an′ti·klī·nôr′ē·əm, -nō′rē·əm) noun pl ·no·ri·a (-nôr′ē·ə, -nō′rē·ə) Geol.
A system of roughly parallel folds in stratified rocks, having on the whole an anticlinal structure and forming a great compound arch. [<NL < ANTI- + Gk. klinein slope + oros mountain] 
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