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Slit vs Scizorhinal - What's the difference?

slit | scizorhinal |

As a noun slit

is a narrow cut or opening; a slot.

As a verb slit

is to cut a narrow opening.

As an adjective scizorhinal is

having the nasal bones separate.

slit

English

(wikipedia slit)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A narrow cut or opening; a slot.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].}}
  • (vulgar, slang) The opening of the vagina.
  • (vulgar, slang, derogatory) A woman, usually a sexually loose woman; a prostitute.
  • Verb

  • To cut a narrow opening.
  • He slit the bag open and the rice began pouring out.
  • To split in two parts.
  • To cut; to sever; to divide.
  • * Milton:
  • And slits the thin-spun life.

    scizorhinal

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (anatomy) Having the nasal bones separate.
  • (zoology) Having the anterior nostrils prolonged backward in the form of a slit.
  • (Webster 1913)