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Definition

a long, narrow crack; or its creation — especially in the ground or in rock

or:

a crack in the unity of a group; or its creation

fissure = a long narrow crack

fissure = split

fissures = cracks

fissure = long narrow crack

fissures = long narrow cracks n the earth

The horses had been secured to some scattering shrubs that grew in the fissures of the rocks,
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of The Mohicans
Some of the fissures near the cliffs were a yard wide.
Charles Darwin -- The Voyage of the Beagle
When the chain was all paid out, the candle confirmed my suspicion; a considerable section of the wall was gone, exposing a good big fissure.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee
The wear and tear of spring storms and melting snows had underwashed the bank and in one place had made a small cave out of a narrow fissure.
Jack London -- White Fang
The New York of Newland Archer's day was a small and slippery [social] pyramid, in which, as yet, hardly a fissure had been made or a foothold gained.
Edith Wharton -- The Age of Innocence
He was not seen again; it is assumed he broke through a thin snow bridge and plummeted to his death at the bottom of one of the deep fissures.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

fissures = long narrow cracks

Ice was everywhere, in the valleys, in the cracks of stones, in fissures of the rock, in his hair, in his eyebrows.
David Almond -- Kit's Wilderness

fissures = long narrow cracks

I pulled my right ax from the ice, reached up, and twisted the pick into a crooked half-inch fissure until it jammed.
Jon Krakauer -- Into the Wild

fissure = narrow crack

This is how my mother must have felt when she saw the first shaft of sunlight penetrate the fissure in her stone prison walls.
Lauren Oliver -- Delirium
With a sharp boom the shaft of stone cracked before them, a fissure splitting it from top to bottom.
Scott Westerfeld -- The Secret Hour
Her body was as gray as ash, fissured with black lines like volcanic lava.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
Everything, finally, unfolded in a place resembling a deep, inaccessible fissure.
Haruki Murakami -- After Dark
His javelin slammed into the earth where Artemis had been a split second before, and a fissure opened in the rocks.
Rick Riordan -- The Titan's Curse
Even if you're blasting miles away, there are bedrock fissures that can be weakened.
David Baldacci -- Zero Day
Harry saw a fissure in the cliff into which dark water was swirling.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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