Crevice
[krev-is] /ˈkrɛv ɪs/
noun
1.
a crack forming an opening; cleft; rift; fissure.
/ˈkrɛvɪs/
noun
1.
a narrow fissure or crack; split; cleft
n.
mid-14c., from Old French crevace (12c., Modern French crevasse) “gap, rift, crack” (also, vulgarly, “the female pudenda”), from Vulgar Latin *crepacia, from Latin crepare “to crack, creak;” meaning shifted from the sound of breaking to the resulting fissure.
crevice crev·ice (krěv’ĭs)
n.
A narrow crack, fissure, or cleft.
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