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scissors-tailed |
scissorsbill |
scissorstail |
scissortail |
scissortailed flycatcher |
scissure
| scitamineous
| sciuridae
| sciurine
| sciuroid
| sciuromorpha
scissure
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun scissure has 1 sense
CIDE DICTIONARY
scissure, n. [L. scissura, from scindere, scissum, to cut, split.].
A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; a fissure. Hammond. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
scissure
abysm, abyss, arroyo, box canyon, breach, break, canyon, cavity, chap, chasm, check, chimney, chink, cleft, cleuch, clough, col, coulee, couloir, crack, cranny, crevasse, crevice, cut, cwm, defile, dell, dike, ditch, donga, draw, excavation, fault, fissure, flaw, flume, fracture, furrow, gap, gape, gash, gorge, groove, gulch, gulf, gully, hole, incision, joint, kloof, leak, moat, notch, nullah, opening, pass, passage, ravine, rent, rift, rime, rupture, seam, slit, slot, split, trench, valley, void, wadiROGET THESAURUS
scissure
Interval
N interval, interspace, separation, break, gap, opening, hole, chasm, hiatus, caesura, interruption, interregnum, interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha, gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm, gulf, inlet, frith, strait, gully, pass, furrow, abra, barranca, barranco, clove, gulch, notch, yawning gulf, hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus, parenthesis, void, incompleteness, period, interim (time), with an interval, far between, breachy, rimose, rimulose, at intervals, longo intervallo.
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