noun
- plural of cleft; narrow openings, cracks, or splits in something
Examples
- The rock face had several deep clefts where water had frozen and expanded.
- Small plants grew in the clefts between the stone walls.
- The earthquake created new clefts in the mountainside.
- Birds often nest in the clefts of cliff faces.
- Water trickled down through the narrow clefts in the canyon wall.
- The ancient tree had deep clefts in its bark.