Definition of cleft

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Cleft (a.) Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf..

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Clough :: Clough (n.) A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley.
Fissirostral :: Fissirostral (a.) Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers..
Chap :: Chap (n.) A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin..
Rift :: Rift (n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
Cleftgraft :: Cleftgraft (v. t.) To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion.
Clove :: Clove (imp.) Cleft.
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..
Jagged :: "Jagged (a.) Having jags; having rough, sharp notches, protuberances, or teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided; as, jagged rocks..
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.) Divided; split; partly divided or split.
Bifid :: Bifid (a.) Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins..
Vulviform :: Vulviform (a.) Like a cleft with projecting edges.
Pedate :: Pedate (a.) Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments; -- said of a leaf..
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..
Trifid :: Trifid (a.) Cleft to the middle, or slightly beyond the middle, into three parts; three-cleft..
Cleft :: Cleft (n.) A piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood..
Cleft :: Cleft (n.) A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
Staphylotomy :: Staphylorrhaphy (n.) The operation of uniting a cleft palate, consisting in paring and bringing together the edges of the cleft..
Cleft :: Cleft () imp. & p. p. from Cleave.
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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