Definition of Crevices

1. Noun. (plural of crevice) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crevices

1. crevice [n] - See also: crevice

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crevices

creutzfeldt-jakob disease
creutzfeldt-jakob syndrome
crevalle
crevalle jack
crevalles
crevet
crevets
crevette
crevettes
crevice
creviced
crevices (current term)
crevicular
crevicular epithelium
crevicular fluid
crevis
crevises
crew
crew-served weapon
crew chief
crew chiefs
crew cut
crew cuts
crew member
crew neck
crew neckline

Literary usage of Crevices

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

1. Geology of Wisconsin: Survey of 1873-1879 by Wisconsin Chief Geologist (1883)
"When obtained from crevices in a very hard dolomitic rock, the cleavage ... When the ore is from large crevices or openings, and in comparatively soft rock, ..."

2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"and ends which were, so to speak, stuffed into the crevices from year's end to year's end.—BELLOC, BESSIE RAYNER, 1894, ..."

3. A Dictionary of the Bible, Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"... tossed about in the wildest confusion, and intermingled with fissures and crevices in every direction. Strange as it may seem, this forbidding region is ..."

4. Ecosystem Disturbance and Wildlife Conservation in Western Grasslands: A edited by Deborah M. Finch (1998)
"Species of concern Caves, mine tunnels, rock crevices, old buildings. ... (Euderma maculatum) Big free-tailed bat Species of concern crevices in rocky ..."

5. Geology of Wisconsin: Survey of 1873-1879 by Wisconsin Chief Geologist (1883)
"When obtained from crevices in a very hard dolomitic rock, the cleavage ... When the ore is from large crevices or openings, and in comparatively soft rock, ..."

6. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"and ends which were, so to speak, stuffed into the crevices from year's end to year's end.—BELLOC, BESSIE RAYNER, 1894, ..."

7. A Dictionary of the Bible, Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by William Robertson Smith (1896)
"... tossed about in the wildest confusion, and intermingled with fissures and crevices in every direction. Strange as it may seem, this forbidding region is ..."

8. Ecosystem Disturbance and Wildlife Conservation in Western Grasslands: A edited by Deborah M. Finch (1998)
"Species of concern Caves, mine tunnels, rock crevices, old buildings. ... (Euderma maculatum) Big free-tailed bat Species of concern crevices in rocky ..."

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