Definition of cleft

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Cleft (a.) Divided; split; partly divided or split.

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Chinky :: Chinky (a.) Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.
Cleft :: Cleft () imp. & p. p. from Cleave.
Quadrifid :: Quadrifid (a.) Divided, or deeply cleft, into four parts; as, a quadrifid perianth; a quadrifid leaf..
Clift :: Clift (n.) A cleft of crack; a narrow opening.
Bifid :: Bifid (a.) Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins..
Chop :: Chop (n.) A crack or cleft. See Chap.
Trifid :: Trifid (a.) Cleft to the middle, or slightly beyond the middle, into three parts; three-cleft..
Vein :: Vein (n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance..
Fissirostres :: Fissirostres (n. pl.) A group of birds having the bill deeply cleft.
Chasm :: Chasm (n.) A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure..
Guhr :: Guhr (n.) A loose, earthy deposit from water, found in the cavities or clefts of rocks, mostly white, but sometimes red or yellow, from a mixture of clay or ocher..
Cleft :: Cleft (a.) Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf..
Jag :: Jag (n.) A cleft or division.
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..
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..
Splitfeet :: Split (a.) Divided deeply; cleft.
Tripinnatifid :: Tripinnatifid (a.) Thrice pinnately cleft; -- said of a pinnatifid leaf when its segments are pinnatifid, and the subdivisions of these also are pinnatifid..
Vulviform :: Vulviform (a.) Like a cleft with projecting edges.
Multifid :: Multifid (a.) Having many segments; cleft into several parts by linear sinuses; as, a multifid leaf or corolla..
Clove :: Clove (imp.) Cleft.
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