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Palma Christi :: Palma Christi () A plant (Ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions; -- called also castor-oil plant..

Quadrifid :: Quadrifid (a.) Divided, or deeply cleft, into four parts; as, a quadrifid perianth; a quadrifid leaf..

Crevasse :: Crevasse (n.) A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided..

Parted :: Parted (a.) Cleft so that the divisions reach nearly, but not quite, to the midrib, or the base of the blade; -- said of a leaf, and used chiefly in composition; as, three-parted, five-parted, etc..

Chinky :: Chinky (a.) Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.

Ravine :: Ravine (n.) A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft..

Vein :: Vein (n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance..

Bifid :: Bifid (a.) Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins..

Pedatifid :: Pedatifid (a.) Cleft in a pedate manner, but having the lobes distinctly connected at the base; -- said of a leaf..

Cleft-footed :: Cleft-footed (a.) Having a cloven foot.

Multifid :: Multifid (a.) Having many segments; cleft into several parts by linear sinuses; as, a multifid leaf or corolla..

Rima :: Rima (n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.

Chine :: Chine (n.) A chink or cleft; a narrow and deep ravine; as, Shanklin Chine in the Isle of Wight, a quarter of a mile long and 230 feet deep..

Rimose :: Rimose (a.) Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees..

Spinaceous :: Spina bifida () A congenital malformation in which the spinal column is cleft at its lower portion, and the membranes of the spinal cord project as an elastic swelling from the gap thus formed..

Spiniferous :: Spineted (a.) Slit; cleft.

Fissure :: Fissure (n.) A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock..

Pedate :: Pedate (a.) Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments; -- said of a leaf..

Cleft :: Cleft (n.) A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.

Tripinnatifid :: Tripinnatifid (a.) Thrice pinnately cleft; -- said of a pinnatifid leaf when its segments are pinnatifid, and the subdivisions of these also are pinnatifid..

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