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fissured Definition


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fissure
noun
    1. geol.
      A long narrow crack or fracture especially in a body of rock, the Earth's surface or a volcano.
      Thesaurus: break, breach, chasm, rupture, split, crevice, fault, crack, cleft, fracture, gap.
    2. anatomy.
      A natural narrow cleft or groove that divides an organ such as the brain into lobes.
verb
    tr & intr
    fissured, fissuring
    1. To crack, split or divide.
Etymology: 14c: from Latin fissura split, from findere to split.



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