Other forms: crevices
A crevice is a narrow crack in a rock or a wall. A crevice in the cliff, hide in a crevice, deep crevice.
It is narrow enough to reach into and no wider, which is what distinguishes it from a crevasse — the same French word, but a crevasse is a great split in a glacier and will swallow a person. Plants and small animals live in crevices. Note that the root means to burst or crack.
1nouncreviceA narrow crack in a rock or a wall.
“A tiny lizard darted into a crevice in the wall.”
crevice is a crack.
Old French crevace comes from crever, to burst, from Latin crepare. Crevasse is the same word borrowed again later.
Latin
crepō — to break, burst, crack
Old French
crevace
Middle English
crevice
English, today
crevice
Built from
From Middle English crevice, from Old French crevace, from crever (“to break, burst”), from Latin crepō (“to break, burst, crack”). a doublet of crevasse.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA