- a space or opening made by cleavage; a split.
- a division formed by cleaving.
- a hollow area or indentation: a chin with a cleft.
- a crack on the bend of the pastern of a horse.
- a simple past tense and past participle of cleave2.
- cloven; split; divided.
- (of a leaf, corolla, lobe, or other expanded plant part) having divisions formed by incisions or narrow sinuses that extend more than halfway to the midrib or the base.
- the past tense and a past participle of cleave 1
- a fissure or crevice
- an indentation or split in something, such as the chin, palate, etc
- split; divided
- (of leaves) having one or more incisions reaching nearly to the midrib
