Definition of cleft

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

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Jag :: Jag (n.) A cleft or division.
Cleft :: Cleft (a.) Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf..
Vein :: Vein (n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance..
Clift :: Clift (n.) A cleft of crack; a narrow opening.
Opening :: Opening (n.) A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole..
Ravine :: Ravine (n.) A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft..
Cleft :: Cleft (imp.) of Cleav.
Fissirostres :: Fissirostres (n. pl.) A group of birds having the bill deeply cleft.
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..
Undivided :: Undivided (a.) Not lobed, cleft, or branched; entire..
Pedate :: Pedate (a.) Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments; -- said of a leaf..
Quadrifid :: Quadrifid (a.) Divided, or deeply cleft, into four parts; as, a quadrifid perianth; a quadrifid leaf..
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..
Staphylotomy :: Staphylorrhaphy (n.) The operation of uniting a cleft palate, consisting in paring and bringing together the edges of the cleft..
Cleftgraft :: Cleftgraft (v. t.) To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion.
Pedatifid :: Pedatifid (a.) Cleft in a pedate manner, but having the lobes distinctly connected at the base; -- said of a leaf..
Rima :: Rima (n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.
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..
Chop :: Chop (n.) A crack or cleft. See Chap.
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