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Crevice :: Crevice (n.) A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.

Limpet :: Limpet (n.) A keyhole limpet. See Fissurella.

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.

Clifted :: Clifted (a.) Broken; fissured.

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

Fissure :: Fissure (n.) A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock..

Feeder :: Feeder (n.) A strong discharge of gas from a fissure; a blower.

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

Scissure :: Scissure (n.) A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure..

Rake :: Rake (n.) A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, or nearly so; -- called also rake-vein..

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

Rime :: Rime (n.) A rent or long aperture; a chink; a fissure; a crack.

Shake :: Shake (n.) A fissure in rock or earth.

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

Stuff :: Stufa (n.) A jet of steam issuing from a fissure in the earth.

Leak :: Leak (v.) The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps..

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..

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..

Falx :: Falx (n.) A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain..

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

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