Definition of cleft

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Cleft (n.) A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.

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Rift :: Rift (n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.
Quinque- :: Quinque- () A combining form meaning five, five times, fivefold; as, quinquefid, five-cleft; quinquedentate, five-toothed..
Pedate :: Pedate (a.) Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments; -- said of a leaf..
Cleft :: Cleft (n.) A piece made by splitting; as, a cleft of wood..
Chinky :: Chinky (a.) Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.
Commissure :: Commissure (n.) A joint, seam, or closure; the place where two bodies, or parts of a body, meet and unite; an interstice, cleft, or juncture..
Chap :: Chap (n.) A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin..
Opening :: Opening (n.) A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole..
Fissure :: Fissure (n.) A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock..
Pygopod :: Pygopod (n.) Any species of serpentiform lizards of the family Pygopodidae, which have rudimentary hind legs near the anal cleft, but lack fore legs..
Pentafid :: Pentafid (a.) Divided or cleft into five parts.
Cleft :: Cleft () imp. & p. p. from Cleave.
Ravine :: Ravine (n.) A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft..
Multifid :: Multifid (a.) Having many segments; cleft into several parts by linear sinuses; as, a multifid leaf or corolla..
Aperture :: Aperture (n.) An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall..
Sexifid :: Sexifid (a.) Six-cleft; as, a sexfid calyx or nectary..
Chink :: Chink (n.) A small cleft, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall..
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..
Quadrifid :: Quadrifid (a.) Divided, or deeply cleft, into four parts; as, a quadrifid perianth; a quadrifid leaf..
Fissile :: Fissile (a.) Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals..
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