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Definition of Cleft

1. Adjective. Having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib.

2. Noun. A split or indentation in something (as the palate or chin).

3. Noun. A long narrow opening.

Definition of Cleft

1. a. Divided; split; partly divided or split.

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

Definition of Cleft

1. Noun. an opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting ¹

2. Verb. (past of cleave) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cleft

1. to insert a scion into the stock of a plant [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Cleft

1. A fissure. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cleft

cledonomancy cleek cleeked cleeking cleekit cleeks cleep cleeped cleeping cleeps

cleeve cleeves clef cleflike clefs cleft (current term) cleft chin cleft chins cleft foot cleft grafting

cleft lip cleft nose cleft spine cleft stick cleft sticks cleft tongue cleft uvula clefted

Literary usage of Cleft

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1868)
"15 ; median cleft of the velum ; cleft on left side of the vault ; deficiency of the alveolar process after resection of intermaxillary bones, seven lines; ..."

2. The Lancet (1898)
"In such a case there is a complete median cleft of the soft and bard palate and a double bare-lip. If, however, the piece of the alveolar process with the ..."

3. Manual of Botany, for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1829)
"Calyx 4-toothed: corol 4 or 5-cleft, bell-form : berries 2, one-see «I, ... Calyx 2-leaved : corol 4-cleft, wheel-form, adhering to the m so as to appear as ..."

4. Heredity in Relation to Eugenics by Charles Benedict Davenport (1911)
"Harelip and cleft Palate. — These are intimately associated deformities, ... If the failure to close is in front harelip results, if behind cleft palate or ..."

5. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"cleft, the chief figure in the upper part appears to be the giant Ra-jd ... In the central part of the cleft, at the bottom, on the left, is a figure seated ..."

6. A Sketch of the Botany of South-Carolina and Georgia by Stephen Elliott (1824)
"Corolla of an obscure yellow, with brighter streaks and spotted with purple and brown, border 5 cleft, the 2 upper segments reflected, the 3 lower expanding ..."

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