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cloven

[kloh-vuhn] / ˈkloʊ vən /


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Foot and mouth disease is a highly contagious virus that affects cloven hooved animals.

From Reuters • Jul. 20, 2022

The name of a police officer who supposedly investigated the cloven footprints in the snow was made up.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2021

The plant’s long, slender leaves are cloven at the top and tapered at the tip, like an exaggerated cartoon heart.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2019

“Chilling Adventures” hurls everything it can into its narrative cauldron, including a cave like a Hellmouth and a prep school like a satanic Hogwarts, replete with cloven hooves and pentagrams.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 26, 2018

Often the baby has a deeply cloven skull.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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