Definition of cleft

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Cleft (n.) A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock..

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Spiniferous :: Spineted (a.) Slit; cleft.
Chop :: Chop (n.) A crack or cleft. See Chap.
Cleft :: Cleft (n.) A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as, the cleft of a rock..
Fissure :: Fissure (n.) A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock..
Clift :: Clift (n.) A cleft of crack; a narrow opening.
Spiracle :: Spiracle (n.) A tubular orifice communicating with the gill cavity of certain ganoid and all elasmobranch fishes. It is the modified first gill cleft.
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..
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..
Cleft :: Cleft (a.) Incised nearly to the midrib; as, a cleft leaf..
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..
Ravine :: Ravine (n.) A deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft..
Vein :: Vein (n.) A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance..
Pedate :: Pedate (a.) Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments; -- said of a leaf..
Sexifid :: Sexifid (a.) Six-cleft; as, a sexfid calyx or nectary..
Undivided :: Undivided (a.) Not lobed, cleft, or branched; entire..
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..
Cleft :: Cleft (a.) Divided; split; partly divided or split.
Chap :: Chap (n.) A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin..
Vulviform :: Vulviform (a.) Like a cleft with projecting edges.
Sea Girdles :: Sea girdles () A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle..
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