Definition of cleft

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Cleft () imp. & p. p. from Cleave.

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Scissure :: Scissure (n.) A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure..
Chop :: Chop (n.) A crack or cleft. See Chap.
Cleft :: Cleft () imp. & p. p. from Cleave.
Sea Girdles :: Sea girdles () A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle..
Clift :: Clift (n.) A cleft of crack; a narrow opening.
Cleft :: Cleft (n.) A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock..
Octofid :: Octofid (a.) Cleft or separated into eight segments, as a calyx..
Cleft :: Cleft (n.) A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
Fissure :: Fissure (n.) A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock..
Clough :: Clough (n.) A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley.
Commissure :: Commissure (n.) A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture..
Cleft :: Cleft (a.) Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf..
Chap :: Chap (n.) A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin..
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..
Fissirostral :: Fissirostral (a.) Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers..
Sexifid :: Sexifid (a.) Six-cleft; as, a sexfid calyx or nectary..
Jeffersonia :: "Jeffersonia (n.) An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves (Jeffersonia diphylla); twinleaf..
Vulviform :: Vulviform (a.) Like a cleft with projecting edges.
Jagged :: "Jagged (a.) Having jags; having rough, sharp notches, protuberances, or teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided; as, jagged rocks..
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..
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