Definition of cleft

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Cleft (n.) A piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood..

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Sexifid :: Sexifid (a.) Six-cleft; as, a sexfid calyx or nectary..
Scissure :: Scissure (n.) A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure..
Clove :: Clove (v. t.) A cleft; a gap; a ravine; -- rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove..
Cleft :: Cleft (a.) Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf..
Spiniferous :: Spineted (a.) Slit; cleft.
Crevice :: Crevice (n.) A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.
Cleft :: Cleft (n.) A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock..
Jeffersonia :: "Jeffersonia (n.) An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves (Jeffersonia diphylla); twinleaf..
Chinky :: Chinky (a.) Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.
Clove :: Clove (imp.) 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..
Chop :: Chop (n.) A crack or cleft. See Chap.
Staphylotomy :: Staphylorrhaphy (n.) The operation of uniting a cleft palate, consisting in paring and bringing together the edges of the cleft..
Pedate :: Pedate (a.) Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments; -- said of a leaf..
Two-cleft :: Two-cleft (a.) Divided about half way from the border to the base into two segments; bifid.
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..
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..
Split :: Split (a.) Divided; cleft.
Quinque- :: Quinque- () A combining form meaning five, five times, fivefold; as, quinquefid, five-cleft; quinquedentate, five-toothed..
Fissure :: Fissure (n.) A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock..
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