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cleft chin

noun

Etymology

From cleft + chin. Compare Middle English clove chynne (“cleft chin”, literally “cloven chin”).

  1. inherited from *ǵénus✻
  2. inherited from *kinnuz✻
  3. inherited from *kinnu✻
  4. inherited from ċinn
  5. inherited from chyn
  6. formed as cleft chin — “cleft + chin”

Definitions

  1. The presence of a genetic trait in which a fissure in the lower jaw causes a visible…

    The presence of a genetic trait in which a fissure in the lower jaw causes a visible dimple in the center of the chin.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cleft chin. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA