Definition of cleft

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Cleft () imp. & p. p. from Cleave.

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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.
Opening :: Opening (n.) A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole..
Two-cleft :: Two-cleft (a.) Divided about half way from the border to the base into two segments; bifid.
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..
Pedate :: Pedate (a.) Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments; -- said of a leaf..
Quadrifid :: Quadrifid (a.) Divided, or deeply cleft, into four parts; as, a quadrifid perianth; a quadrifid leaf..
Fissirostres :: Fissirostres (n. pl.) A group of birds having the bill deeply cleft.
Cleft :: Cleft (imp.) of Cleav.
Chap :: Chap (n.) A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin..
Sea Girdles :: Sea girdles () A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle..
Cleft :: Cleft () imp. & p. p. from Cleave.
Pentafid :: Pentafid (a.) Divided or cleft into five parts.
Sexifid :: Sexifid (a.) Six-cleft; as, a sexfid calyx or nectary..
Scissure :: Scissure (n.) A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure..
Clove :: Clove (v. t.) A cleft; a gap; a ravine; -- rarely used except as part of a proper name; as, Kaaterskill Clove; Stone Clove..
Tripinnatifid :: Tripinnatifid (a.) Thrice pinnately cleft; -- said of a pinnatifid leaf when its segments are pinnatifid, and the subdivisions of these also are pinnatifid..
Decemfid :: Decemfid (a.) Cleft into ten parts.
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..
Cleft :: Cleft (a.) Divided; split; partly divided or split.
Cut :: Cut (n.) An opening made with an edged instrument; a cleft; a gash; a slash; a wound made by cutting; as, a sword cut..
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