plural of cleft chin

An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting. / A piece made by splitting. / A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern.

simple past tense and past participle of cleave

(teratology) harelip

split, divided, or partially divided into two.

(linguistics) To syntactically separate a prominent constituent from the rest of the clause that concerns it, such as threat in "The threat which I saw but which he didn't see, was his downfall."

(teratology) An abnormal condition in which the two plates of the skull that form the hard palate (roof of the mouth) are not completely joined.

plural of cleft

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of cleft

plural of clefting