clinolimnion

noun

cli·​no·​lim·​ni·​on

ˌklīnəˈlimnēˌän

plural clinolimnia

-nēə

: the upper layers of a hypolimnion in which the rate of warming falls off exponentially with depth compare bathylimnion

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from clin- + -limnion

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