Definition of cleft

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Cleft (p. p.) of Cleav.

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Spiniferous :: Spineted (a.) Slit; cleft.
Clift :: Clift (n.) A cleft of crack; a narrow opening.
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..
Aperture :: Aperture (n.) An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall..
Decemfid :: Decemfid (a.) Cleft into ten parts.
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..
Fissirostral :: Fissirostral (a.) Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers..
Octofid :: Octofid (a.) Cleft or separated into eight segments, as a calyx..
Guhr :: Guhr (n.) A loose, earthy deposit from water, found in the cavities or clefts of rocks, mostly white, but sometimes red or yellow, from a mixture of clay or ocher..
Sea Girdles :: Sea girdles () A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle..
Tripinnatifid :: Tripinnatifid (a.) Thrice pinnately cleft; -- said of a pinnatifid leaf when its segments are pinnatifid, and the subdivisions of these also are pinnatifid..
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..
Chinky :: Chinky (a.) Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.
Splitfeet :: Split (a.) Divided deeply; cleft.
Jagged :: "Jagged (a.) Having jags; having rough, sharp notches, protuberances, or teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided; as, jagged rocks..
Pedatifid :: Pedatifid (a.) Cleft in a pedate manner, but having the lobes distinctly connected at the base; -- said of a leaf..
Ravine :: Ravine (n.) A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft..
Jeffersonia :: "Jeffersonia (n.) An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves (Jeffersonia diphylla); twinleaf..
Jag :: Jag (n.) A cleft or division.
Cleft-footed :: Cleft-footed (a.) Having a cloven foot.
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