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An American herb with a pretty, white, solitary blossom, and deeply two-cleft leaves (Jeffersonia diphylla); twinleaf.

Having many segments; cleft into several parts by linear sinuses; as, a multifid leaf or corolla.

Cleft or separated into eight segments, as a calyx.

A place which is open; a breach; an aperture; a gap; cleft, or hole. We saw him at the opening of his tent. Shak.

A plant (Ricinus communis) with ornamental peltate and palmately cleft foliage, growing as a woody perennial in the tropics, and cultivated as an herbaceous annual in temperate regions; -- called also castor-oil plant. [Sometimes corrupted into palmcrist.]

Cleft so that the divisions reach nearly, but not quite, to the midrib, or the base of the blade; -- said of a leaf, and used chiefly in composition; as, three-parted, five-parted, etc. Gray.

Palmate, with the lateral lobes cleft into two or more segments; -- said of a leaf. -- Ped"ate*ly, adv.

Cleft in a pedate manner, but having the lobes distinctly connected at the base; -- said of a leaf.

Divided or cleft into five parts.

bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center. [Obs.] "The very pin of his heart cleft." Shak.

entiform lizards of the family Pygopodidæ, which have rudimentary hind legs near the anal cleft, but lack fore legs.

Divided, or deeply cleft, into four parts; as, a quadrifid perianth; a quadrifid leaf.

tary's place, . . . and yet kept good quarter between themselves. Bacon. False quarter, a cleft in the quarter of a horse's foot. -- Fifth quarter, the hide and fat; -- a butcher's term. -- On the quarter (Naut.), in a direction between abeam and astern; opposite, or nearly opposite, a vessel's quarter. -- Quarter a…

A combining form meaning five, five times, fivefold; as, quinquefid, five-cleft; quinquedentate, five-toothed.

deep and narrow hollow, usually worn by a stream or torrent of water; a gorge; a mountain cleft.

An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure. Spenser.

A narrow and elongated aperture; a cleft; a fissure.

Having long and nearly parallel clefts or chinks, like those in the bark of trees.

A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure. Hammond.

A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle.