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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Bifid :: Bifid (a.) Cleft to the middle or slightly beyond the middle; opening with a cleft; divided by a linear sinus, with straight margins..
Rimose :: Rimose (a.) Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees..
Fissirostral :: Fissirostral (a.) Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers..
Cleftgraft :: Cleftgraft (v. t.) To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion.
Chinky :: Chinky (a.) Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts.
Opening :: Opening (n.) A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole..
Pedatifid :: Pedatifid (a.) Cleft in a pedate manner, but having the lobes distinctly connected at the base; -- said of a leaf..
Undivided :: Undivided (a.) Not lobed, cleft, or branched; entire..
Rima :: Rima (n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.
Quadrifid :: Quadrifid (a.) Divided, or deeply cleft, into four parts; as, a quadrifid perianth; a quadrifid leaf..
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..
Jag :: Jag (n.) A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation.
Split :: Split (a.) Divided; cleft.
Splitfeet :: Split (a.) Divided deeply; cleft.
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..
Chasm :: Chasm (n.) A deep opening made by disruption, as a breach in the earth or a rock; a yawning abyss; a cleft; a fissure..
Tripinnatifid :: Tripinnatifid (a.) Thrice pinnately cleft; -- said of a pinnatifid leaf when its segments are pinnatifid, and the subdivisions of these also are pinnatifid..
Chop :: Chop (n.) A crack or cleft. See Chap.
Jagged :: "Jagged (a.) Having jags; having rough, sharp notches, protuberances, or teeth; cleft; laciniate; divided; as, jagged rocks..
Fissirostres :: Fissirostres (n. pl.) A group of birds having the bill deeply cleft.
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