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multifid

[ muhl-tuh-fid ]

adjective

  1. cleft into many parts, divisions, or lobes.


multifid

/ ˈmʌltɪfɪd; mʌlˈtɪfɪdəs /

adjective

  1. having or divided into many lobes or similar segments

    a multifid leaf

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Derived Forms

  • ˈ³¾³Ü±ô³Ù¾±´Ú¾±»å±ô²â, adverb
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³¾³Ü±ôt¾±Â·´Ú¾±»å·±ô²â adverb
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of multifid1

First recorded in 1745–55, multifid is from the Latin word multifidus divided into many parts. See multi-, -fid
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of multifid1

C18: from Latin multifidus, from multus many + findere to split
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Example Sentences

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Carpels few, stipitate, several-seeded.—Perennial herbs, with palmately multifid radical leaves, the scape bearing a single large yellow flower surrounded by an involucre of a single leaf.

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Shell with medium spire, external or partly covered by the mantle; genital aperture below the right posterior tentacle; genital apparatus generally provided with a dart-sac and multifid vesicles.

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Shell external, with elongated spire and numerous whorls, aperture generally narrow; male genital duct without multifid vesicles.

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Multifarious, in many rows or ranks; Multifid, many-cleft; Multilocular, many-celled; Multiserial, in many rows.

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And the phrases two-cleft, or, in the Latin form, bifid, three-cleft or trifid, four-cleft or quadrifid, five-cleft or quinquefid, etc., or many-cleft, in the Latin form, multifid,—express the number of the Segments, or portions.

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