bifid
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- bifidity noun
- bifidly adverb
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
Example Sentences
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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
In P. euthysanota euthysanota nearly 60 per cent and in P. schmidtorum schmidtorum about 90 per cent of the specimens have a bifid tubercle beneath the fourth finger on one or both hands.
From A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla by Duellman, William E.
Variation.—The distal subarticular tubercle beneath the fourth finger is bifid in about two-thirds of the specimens; in the rest it is round.
From A Review of the Middle American Tree Frogs of the Genus Ptychohyla by Duellman, William E.
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