Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a crevice or crevices; cracked; cleft; fissured.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having a crevice or crevices.

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  • adjective Having a crevice or crevices.

Etymologies

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crevice +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • In late spring we used to search its creviced bark for the caterpillars of the merveille du jour moth.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • In late spring we used to search its creviced bark for the caterpillars of the merveille du jour moth.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Others, with their warty, creviced bark erupting into hand-holds of knots and burrs, began branching almost at ground level like irregular stepladders, as if defying anyone not to climb them.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Others, with their warty, creviced bark erupting into hand-holds of knots and burrs, began branching almost at ground level like irregular stepladders, as if defying anyone not to climb them.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • You see the faces of officious and accusing priests, with warts, creviced skin, bad teeth and bulbous noses.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • You see the faces of officious and accusing priests, with warts, creviced skin, bad teeth and bulbous noses.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • Mellstock parish with Upper Mellstock and Lewgate, and to his eyes, casually glancing upward, the silver and black-stemmed birches with their characteristic tufts, the pale grey boughs of beech, the dark-creviced elm, all appeared now as black and flat outlines upon the sky, wherein the white stars twinkled so vehemently that their flickering seemed like the flapping of wings.

    Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

  • You see the faces of officious and accusing priests, with warts, creviced skin, bad teeth and bulbous noses.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • You see the faces of officious and accusing priests, with warts, creviced skin, bad teeth and bulbous noses.

    Hullabaloo 2006

  • You see the faces of officious and accusing priests, with warts, creviced skin, bad teeth and bulbous noses.

    Hullabaloo 2006

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