Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having good cleavage. Used of minerals.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In mineralogy, having an even lamellar or flatly foliated structure.

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

  • adjective Like spar; foliated or lamellar; spathose.
  • adjective (Min.) siderite. See Siderite (a).

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective geology, mineralogy Having good cleavage.
  • adjective neologism, slang Having attractive cleavage of the breasts.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[German Spah, Spath, spar (from Middle High German spāt) + –ic.]

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From Ancient Greek σπάθη (spathe, "any broad blade of metal or wood"). Cognates include spatula.

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  • Geology term meaning "having good cleavage". Urban Dictionary is wrong on this.

    July 19, 2007

  • Urban Dictionary is wrong on more than a few things! ;-)

    July 19, 2007

  • Linguistically, UD can't be "wrong", but as it only has two votes, I think it is sufficiently rare to say that it doesn't exist.

    July 20, 2007

  • Nah. It's just wrong. ;-)

    July 20, 2007

  • Can't you just imagine some trashy romance novelist getting ahold of this word? (Yes, I know it's not that kind of cleavage, but still...that's where your mind goes.) ;)

    July 20, 2007

  • Yes, especially if he/she reads Urban Dictionary! ;-)

    July 20, 2007