Min. rare. [app. taken from the common stem of monoclinic, triclinic, f. Gr. κλίν-ειν to bend.] Oblique.
1879. Le Conte, Elem. Geol., 204. Syenite would differ from diorite in the form of the feldspar which in the former is orthic (orthoclase) and in the latter clinic (plagioclase).
