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Cleft :: Cleft (a.) Divided; split; partly divided or split.

Palma Christi :: Palma Christi () A plant (Ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions; -- called also castor-oil plant..

Vulviform :: Vulviform (a.) Like a cleft with projecting edges.

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..

Spiniferous :: Spineted (a.) Slit; cleft.

Jag :: Jag (n.) A cleft or division.

Staphylotomy :: Staphylorrhaphy (n.) The operation of uniting a cleft palate, consisting in paring and bringing together the edges of the cleft..

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..

Jeffersonia :: "Jeffersonia (n.) An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves (Jeffersonia diphylla); twinleaf..

Clough :: Clough (n.) A cleft in a hill; a ravine; a narrow valley.

Tripinnatifid :: Tripinnatifid (a.) Thrice pinnately cleft; -- said of a pinnatifid leaf when its segments are pinnatifid, and the subdivisions of these also are pinnatifid..

Pedate :: Pedate (a.) Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments; -- said of a leaf..

Fissirostral :: Fissirostral (a.) Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case of swallows and goatsuckers..

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..

Chap :: Chap (n.) A cleft, crack, or chink, as in the surface of the earth, or in the skin..

Cleftgraft :: Cleftgraft (v. t.) To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion.

Quadrifid :: Quadrifid (a.) Divided, or deeply cleft, into four parts; as, a quadrifid perianth; a quadrifid leaf..

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..

Cleft :: Cleft (n.) A disease in horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.

Decemfid :: Decemfid (a.) Cleft into ten parts.

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