As nouns the difference between clines and clings
is that clines is plural of cline. Traits that changes continuously over time and/or space; may refer to a linguistic, environmental or geographic change while clings is plural of lang=en.
As a verb clings is
third-person singular of cling.
clines
English
Noun
(head)
. Traits that changes continuously over time and/or space; may refer to a linguistic, environmental or geographic change.
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clings
English
Noun
(head)
Verb
(head)
(cling)