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Circumscissile :: Circumscissile (a.) Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.

Fissural :: Fissural (a.) Pertaining to a fissure or fissures; as, the fissural pattern of a brain..

Rift :: Rift (n.) An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure.

Tear :: Tear (n.) The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure..

Dike :: Dike (n.) A wall-like mass of mineral matter, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata..

Fluework :: Fluework (n.) A general name for organ stops in which the sound is caused by wind passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge above; -- in distinction from reedwork.

Fissurella :: Fissurella (n.) A genus of marine gastropod mollusks, having a conical or limpetlike shell, with an opening at the apex; -- called also keyhole limpet..

Shake :: Shake (n.) A fissure in rock or earth.

Blower :: Blower (n.) A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.

Slit :: Slit (n.) To cut or make a long fissure in or upon; as, to slit the ear or the nose..

Slide :: Slide (n.) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.

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..

Leak :: Leak (v.) A crack, crevice, fissure, or hole which admits water or other fluid, or lets it escape; as, a leak in a roof; a leak in a boat; a leak in a gas pipe..

Split :: Split (n.) A crack, or longitudinal fissure..

Lava :: Lava (n.) The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States..

Leak :: Leak (v.) The entrance or escape of a fluid through a crack, fissure, or other aperture; as, the leak gained on the ship's pumps..

Falx :: Falx (n.) A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain..

Obturator :: Obturator (n.) An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as a fissure of the palate..

Clifted :: Clifted (a.) Broken; fissured.

Rima :: Rima (n.) A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.

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