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adjectivehaving one or more indentations reaching nearly to the midrib
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nouna long narrow opening
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nouna split or indentation in something (as the palate or chin)type of:
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"he had a cleft chin and strong jaw" "the infant was born with a double harelip and cleft palate" "a cleft stick"adjectivesplit or divided
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Definition that contains cleft
- papaya tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
- cleavage the state of being split or cleft
- harelip a congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip
- pawpaw tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
- fissile capable of being split or cleft or divided in the direction of the grain
- obturator a prosthesis used to close an opening (as to close an opening of the hard palate in cases of cleft palate)
- english hawthorn European hawthorn having deeply cleft leaves and bright red fruits; widely cultivated in many varieties and often grown as impenetrable hedges; established as an escape in eastern North America
- pinnatifid (of a leaf shape) cleft nearly to the midrib in broad divisions not separated into distinct leaflets
- papaya tree tropical American shrub or small tree having huge deeply palmately cleft leaves and large oblong yellow fruit
- cleft lip a congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip