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Zygobranchia :: Zygobranchia (n. pl.) A division of marine gastropods in which the gills are developed on both sides of the body and the renal organs are also paired. The abalone (Haliotis) and the keyhole limpet (Fissurella) are examples.

Obturator :: Obturator (n.) An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as a fissure of the palate..

Tear :: Tear (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure..

Rima :: Rima (n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.

Flaw :: Flaw (n.) A crack or breach; a gap or fissure; a defect of continuity or cohesion; as, a flaw in a knife or a vase..

Cranny :: Cranny (n.) A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance..

Hole :: Hole (n.) A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure..

Bord :: Bord (n.) The face of coal parallel to the natural fissures.

Harelip :: Harelip (n.) A lip, commonly the upper one, having a fissure of perpendicular division like that of a hare..

Fluework :: Fluework (n.) A general name for organ stops in which the sound is caused by wind passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge above; -- in distinction from reedwork.

Fissural :: Fissural (a.) Pertaining to a fissure or fissures; as, the fissural pattern of a brain..

Slit :: Slit (n.) To cut or make a long fissure in or upon; as, to slit the ear or the nose..

Rift :: Rift (n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.

Fissure :: Fissure (v. t.) To cleave; to divide; to crack or fracture.

Lava :: Lava (n.) The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States..

Chink :: Chink (v. t.) To cause to open in cracks or fissures.

Rimose :: Rimose (a.) Full of rimes, fissures, or chinks..

Case :: Case (n.) A small fissure which admits water to the workings.

Crannied :: Crannied (a.) Having crannies, chinks, or fissures; as, a crannied wall..

Vein :: Vein (n.) A narrow mass of rock intersecting other rocks, and filling inclined or vertical fissures not corresponding with the stratification; a lode; a dike; -- often limited, in the language of miners, to a mineral vein or lode, that is, to a vein which contains useful minerals or ores..

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