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trifid

[ trahy-fid ]

adjective

  1. cleft into three parts or lobes.


trifid

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adjective

  1. divided or split into three parts or lobes
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of trifid1

First recorded in 1745–55, trifid is from the Latin word trifidus split in three. See tri-, -fid
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of trifid1

C18: from Latin trifidus from tri- + findere to split
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Example Sentences

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Leaves.—Radical leaf remote from the stem; trifid; the segments serrate.

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Male calyx is trifid, the corolla three-petalled, with five stamens; the female calyx is quinquefid, the corolla divided into three segments, and furnished with three stamens.

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It was a kind of Rhus; the dark-green, reticulated, trifid leaf—naked and deeply veined above and covered with down beneath,—was quite typical.

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Some of the filaments are bifid, trifid, and even branched.

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Canes long, numerous, slender, dark reddish-brown; nodes enlarged, flattened; internodes long; tendrils intermittent, trifid or bifid.

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