bifid
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of bifid
1655–65; < Latin bifidus, equivalent to bi- bi- 1 + fid- (variant stem of findere to split; akin to bite ) + -us adj. suffix
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The 2-year-old had surgery for the condition, called preaxial polydactyly or bifid thumb, at Shriners Children’s Chicago hospital this year.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023
The pads on the 3rd and 4th fingers become enlarged at the same time as the bifid claws develop.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 13, 2014
Figure 7.25 Cervical Vertebrae A typical cervical vertebra has a small body, a bifid spinous process, transverse processes that have a transverse foramen and are curved for spinal nerve passage.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Styles 3, united at base, each bifid, red.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
Leaves incubous, complicate-bilobed, the lower lobe usually inflated, helmet- or club-shaped; underleaves bifid, rarely entire, with basal rootlets.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
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