cleft
noun/kleft/
/kleft/
- a natural opening or line, for example in the ground or in rock, or in a person’s chin (= part of the face below the mouth)
（自然的）裂口，裂缝 - a cleft in the rocks
岩石的裂缝 - They walked up a cleft in the hills.
他们走上了山间的一条裂缝。 - the cleft in his chin
他下巴上的凹陷
Word Originnoun Middle English clift: of Germanic origin; related to Dutch kluft and German Kluft, also to cleave ‘to split something in two’. The form of the word was altered in the 16th cent. by association with cleft, the past participle of ‘cleave’. - a cleft in the rocks