Definition of cleft

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Cleft (imp.) of Cleav.

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Clough :: Clough (n.) A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley.
Sexifid :: Sexifid (a.) Six-cleft; as, a sexfid calyx or nectary..
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..
Cleft :: Cleft (a.) Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf..
Bifid :: Bifid (a.) Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins..
Cleft :: Cleft (n.) A piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood..
Undivided :: Undivided (a.) Not lobed, cleft, or branched; entire..
Cut :: Cut (n.) An opening made with an edged instrument; a cleft; a gash; a slash; a wound made by cutting; as, a sword cut..
Chinky :: Chinky (a.) Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.
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..
Clift :: Clift (n.) A cleft of crack; a narrow opening.
Rift :: Rift (n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
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..
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..
Pygopod :: Pygopod (n.) Any species of serpentiform lizards of the family Pygopodidae, which have rudimentary hind legs near the anal cleft, but lack fore legs..
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..
Pedate :: Pedate (a.) Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments; -- said of a leaf..
Opening :: Opening (n.) A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole..
Jeffersonia :: "Jeffersonia (n.) An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves (Jeffersonia diphylla); twinleaf..
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