Definition of cleft

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

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Two-cleft :: Two-cleft (a.) Divided about half way from the border to the base into two segments; bifid.
Crevice :: Crevice (n.) A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.
Clove :: Clove (v. t.) A cleft; a gap; a ravine; -- rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove..
Rift :: Rift (n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
Vulviform :: Vulviform (a.) Like a cleft with projecting edges.
Cleft :: Cleft (n.) A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.
Chink :: Chink (n.) A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall..
Chinky :: Chinky (a.) Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.
Chap :: Chap (n.) A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin..
Cleft :: Cleft () imp. & p. p. from Cleave.
Bifid :: Bifid (a.) Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins..
Chappy :: Chappy () Full of chaps; cleft; gaping; open.
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..
Rimose :: Rimose (a.) Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees..
Sea Girdles :: Sea girdles () A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle..
Chop :: Chop (n.) A crack or cleft. See Chap.
Aperture :: Aperture (n.) An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall..
Spiniferous :: Spineted (a.) Slit; cleft.
Decemfid :: Decemfid (a.) Cleft into ten parts.
Ravine :: Ravine (n.) A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft..
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